VATICAN CITY – Jesus’ love for each person is a concrete love, a love that is addressed to each person “with their first and last name,” Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican September 24 to spend the day with members of an Italian lay community, the young people in recovery they assist and tenor Andrea Bocelli.

VATICAN CITY – To be part of a Christian community is to belong to a group of believers who shun selfishness and give witness to God’s love by loving and caring for one another, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY – Like an orchestra conductor leading a symphony of different sounds and harmonies, the Holy Spirit creates a masterpiece of unity and communion that extols God’s love, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY – The scales of justice cannot solve everything, especially when it comes to stopping a cycle of evil vengeance, Pope Francis said.

In the late 1930s, Nikolaas Tinbergen demonstrated a new concept in biology: “supernormal stimulus.” Introducing plaster eggs larger and more brightly colored than ordinary eggs into birds’ nests, he found that birds could be tricked into neglecting their real eggs in favor of the fake ones. Similarly, he used models, larger and more brightly colored than ordinary butterflies, to lure male butterflies away from real females. Animals can’t always tell the difference between a counterfeit and the real thing.

The new disciples

Los nuevos discípulos