Pope on Pentecost: The power of the Holy Spirit changes hearts

Vatican City, May 20, 2018 / 08:58 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Though people may promise to change things, it is the third person of the Holy Trinity that creates real change through the reinvigoration and renewal of hearts, Pope Francis said on Pentecost Sunday.

Chilean abuse victim: Pope told me to be happy being gay, God made me this way

Vatican City, May 20, 2018 / 09:46 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A victim of the Chilean clergy abuse crisis who met privately with Pope Francis told a Spanish news source that the Pope told him to accept himself and his same-sex attraction, because God made him that way.

Francis tells youth to evangelize through the ‘digital world’

Vatican City, May 20, 2018 / 09:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Sharing the Gospel with people at the peripheries might not even require stepping outside the door, Pope Francis said Saturday, encouraging Christians to evangelize through encounters in the “digital world.”

How US churches are celebrating Mary, Mother of the Church

Los Angeles, Calif., May 19, 2018 / 05:03 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- May 21 will mark the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, added to the Roman calendar this year by Pope Francis.