At audience, pope takes a look at prudence

"War is always a defeat," Pope Francis said, urging people at his general audience to pray that leaders in war-torn nations would have the courage to negotiate for peace.

"We must make every effort to discuss, to negotiate to end war. Let's pray

Hope helps ‘crippled’ hearts rise up and leap for joy

Hope is patient, concrete and extraordinary in that it can change everything, the papal preacher said.

Hope "is the opposite of impatience, of haste, of 'everything immediately.' It is the antidote to discouragement. It keeps yearning alive," Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa told Pope Francis