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In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his cycle of catechesis on "Jesus Christ our Hope" as part of the Jubilee 2025. He reflected on the Sabbath rest of Jesus in the tomb on Holy Saturday. ...read more
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Pray with the Pope Reflection – September 2025
Fr. Edmund Lo, SJ
September 12, 2025
My brothers and sisters: In this month of September, the Holy Father invites us to pray for our relationship with all of creation, that, inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, we might experience our interdependence with all creatures who are loved by God and worthy of love and respect. ...read more
In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his cycle of catechesis on "Jesus Christ our Hope" as part of the Jubilee 2025. He reflected on Jesus' cry of abandonment on the cross before he dies: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34). ...read more
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St. Carlo Acutis, an example to follow!
Mireille Haj-Chahine
September 8, 2025
This young teenager has been declared a saint of the Church! He's not far from us, but is a saint of our time. ...read more
On September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV canonized two exemplary witnesses of the Christian faith: computer programmer Carlo Acutis and student and mountain climber Pier Giorgio Frassati. ...read more
On September 5, 2025, presided over a Liturgy of the Word to formally inaugurate the Borgo Laudato Si', a residence and educational facility on the grounds of the historic papal gardens in Castel Gondolfo. ...read more
We join the Holy Father in praying that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons. ...read more
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Carlo Acutis: A young saint to be. A friend in heaven!
Mireille Haj-Chahine
September 4, 2025
Carlo Acutis’s life bears witness to a path of clarity, a “Highway” to heaven, strewn with faith, prayer, and trust. All his life, Carlo Acutis traced this path, which led him to encounter Christ daily in the Eucharist and in the faces of the poor.  ...read more
In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflected on Jesus' cry of thirst on the cross, saying that it is "not only the physiological need of a tortured body. It is also, and above all, the expression of a profound desire: that of love, of relationship, of communion." ...read more
AI and other digital technologies are here to stay: how might Pope Leo XIV explore the good that can come of them even as they resist the bad? ...read more