20190108T0944-23273-CNS-POPE-MESSAGE-SICK.jpg

A member of the Missionaries of Charity cares for a critically ill patient at Nrimal Hriday home for the dying opened in 1952 by St. Teresa of Kolkata in India. In his message for the World Day of the Sick, celebrated Feb. 11, Pope Francis said that life is "a gift from God" that is "best suited to challenging today's individualism and social fragmentation." (CNS/Sucheta Das, Reuters)