During his general audience on May 1, 2024, St. Joseph the Worker's feast day, Pope Francis says fear is the greatest enemy of faith.By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The greatest enemy of faith is fear, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience. That is why faith is the first gift "that must be welcomed and asked for daily, so that it may be renewed in us. It is seemingly a small gift, yet it is the essential one," he said May 1 in the Paul VI Audience Hall. Continuing a series of audience talks about vices and virtues, the pope reflected on the virtue of faith, reiterating the difference between "cardinal" virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and...
