Carol Glatz

God always sees people’s potential, looking past their mistakes and understanding what they can become, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis encouraged Christian business leaders to form “a new alliance” with young people to learn and create together an economy for the common good.

Prayer is medicine for one’s faith and it reinvigorates the soul, Pope Francis said.

Complaining can be “a poison to the soul, a poison to life” and “almost a sin” when it prevents people from building and strengthening “the desire to move forward,” he said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 12.

The Second Vatican Council was of great interest to the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople wrote in an article published in the Vatican newspaper.