Pope Francis on Tuesday evening met with more than 50,000 altar servers from Germany.

The young people are on their annual pilgrimage to Rome, which this year has a motto from Matthew 12:12:  “Freedom! Because it is lawful to do good.”

The Holy Father arrived in Saint Peter’s Square at 6 pm Rome time, greeted by lively modern music…

• Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered beneath a dreary, drizzly early August sky in St. Peter’s Square this Sunday, the eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, on which the account of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes from the Gospel according to St. Matthew (14:13-21) is proclaimed. It was on the Lord Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the five thousand that the Holy Father focused his remarks ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian devotion at midday…

• Matul ix-xahar ta’ Lulju, id-Direttorat tal-Edukazzjoni fis-Segretarjat ghall-Edukazzjoni Nisranija, permezz ta-Kapijiet td-Dipartiment tal-PSD u Guidance, flimkien mal-Youth Workers impjegati mas-Segretarjat, organizza Walk In Service intiż għall-istudenti li spiċċaw il-Ħames sena tal-iskola Sekondarja fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja. Permezz ta’ dan is-servizz, li kien offrut kemm għall-istudenti kif ukoll għall-ġenituri tagħhom, ingħatat informazzjoni dwar il-possibilitajiet ta’ studju fl-istituzzjonijiet post-sekondarji…

The Holy See has announced the schedule for Pope Francis’ Apostolic Voyage to Albania, set for 21 September 2014. It will be the second visit of a Pope to Albania, after Pope St John Paul II’s visit to the country in 1993.

Pope Francis trip will begin with a welcoming ceremony at Tirana’s “Mother Teresa” international airport, where he will be greeted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama…