Pope Francis interview Archives

Young and old: Two thrown-away generations can save the world, pope says

Mar 23, 2018

A new book-length interview with Pope Francis, titled ‘God is Young,’ represents a kind of “how-to” guide for creating a “revolution of tenderness” in which young people and the elderly — both “thrown away” by society — band together to help change the world.

Pope urges Christians to think about what they say in the Our Father
- Oct 20, 2017
The Italian bishops’ television station, TV2000, will begin airing a nine-part series Oct. 25 featuring Pope Francis’s conversation with Father Marco Pozza, an Italian prison chaplain and theologian. A long trailer for the program was released Oct. 18. In addition to the television program, the conversation will be published as a book, which will be released in Italian in late November.

By Cindy Wooden
Pope on interviews: Church must listen, respond to people’s questions
- Oct 17, 2017
Pope Francis is famous for giving interviews, and he says he prefers small, neighborhood newspapers and magazines. “In fact, in those cases I really am listening to the questions and concerns of common people. I try to respond spontaneously, in a conversation I hope is understandable, and not with rigid formulas,” he said. A new book collecting his interviews is coming out this week in Italian.

By Cindy Wooden
Few new nuggets in book-length interview with Pope Francis
- Sep 29, 2017
A new book-length interview with Pope Francis goes over much of the territory the pontiff has discussed in his previous interviews with various publications, but Austen Ivereigh says there are still some interesting points to be mined from ‘Politique et Societé’ [Politics and Society]. Ivereigh says the interviewer, French sociologist Dominique Wolton, should have dug deeper to reveal more of the man who is now sitting on the Chair of Peter.

By Austen Ivereigh