VATICAN CITY – In his recent apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis told young men and women that they did not need to look far for role models who avoided the traps of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure” that abound in the digital age.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis Wednesday approved the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman, a Roman Catholic cardinal, scholar and founder of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in England.