“We celebrate the Eucharist and the Divine Office in choir every day” – Adoration Sisters.

Collaboration between Church Services TV and Heaven's Road FM "showed the power of the web for evangelisation" and as "a compelling tool for extending the Mission of the Church".

Pontiff will travel to Sweden in October for a joint ecumenical commemoration of the start of the Reformation.

Bishop MacDaid to preside at special Vespers liturgy to honour the witness of religious who have consecrated themselves to a life of prayer and witness.

Papal visit coincides with the 80th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Cuba and the Holy See.

"We remember the fallen and are still numbed by recollection of the scale of the human loss the conflict engendered: almost 1 million soldiers died in the Battle of Verdun."

"May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against ... the right to life and the right to religious freedom!"

Pontiff spent time praying before Our Lady Salus Populi Romani – Protectress of the Roman people - in St Mary Major.