A top Vatican official has made known his opposition to the suggestion made at the Synod of bishops that civilly divorced and remarried Catholic may be allowed to become "more integrated" into the Church.
Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family will be published on April 8, and will be called Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), the Vatican announced today.
While Italy is enjoying one of the most accessible and popular Popes ever in Francis, a new poll has revealed that just half of Italians consider themselves to be Catholic.
Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the "weapons of love" to combat the evil of "blind and brutal violence", following the attacks in Brussels.
After a Holy Week blighted by bomb attacks in Brussels, Pope Francis led the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Easter celebrations on Saturday night by urging them not to lose hope in a gloomy world.
Pope Francis condemned "unprecedented violence" by Islamist militants, saying that followers of religions who carried out acts of fundamentalism or terrorism were profaning God's name.