Papal Audiences

The "most beautiful gift" the Catholic Church and its members can give the world is a reason to live with hope, Pope Francis said.

While Christians must treat addicts with care and comprehension, drug traffickers who push their products on the vulnerable are "murderers" who are called to conversion, Pope Francis said.

Eight people united in their anguish carried into the papal library posters bearing the faces of their loved ones who are held in captivity by Hamas.