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A live April 28 webinar featuring key leaders of Life Teen reflected on its 30 years of outreach and how the ministry continues to evolve to meet the needs of Catholic youth and youth leaders.

Weather and airport congestion are delaying distribution of aid to earthquake victims in Nepal where hundreds of thousands are in need and more than 1,000 had erected temporary sheds on the ground of a Jesuit school.

When Pope Francis tweets, the world listens.

Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and named Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City to succeed him.

Ordaining 19 men to the priesthood on the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis not only told them to make sure their homilies were not boring, but he offered them advice on how to ensure their preaching would touch people: speak from your heart.

The devastation from a magnitude-7.8 earthquake included not just buildings collapsing from the tremors, but also people and villages being buried by landslides and avalanches triggered by the quake and aftershocks.

For an international group of researchers and scholars, serving at the pleasure of popes had meant producing lots of papers on important topics. But with Pope Francis, they are moving from publication to advocacy.

God's plan for fruitful, everlasting unions between a man and woman has been lost in a world filled with skepticism, distrust and hostility, Pope Francis said.

The pope, who is preparing an encyclical letter on the environment, made his remarks at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square April 22 — Earth Day.

With so many women and men being killed because of their faith in Christ, the church today is a church of martyrs, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.