Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from different churches who come to Taizé from all over the world. He was the pope, but also a father and a brother to me.

Pope Francis welcomed criticism—as long as it was not made behind his back.

Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.

“I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal Stephen Chow told Gerard O’Connell in an exclusive interview.

The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican hasn’t ordered a set of cassocks from the two best-known papal tailors.

The people of God see the bishop of Rome as a teacher, but they also unquestionably see him as a father.