Address by Pope Leo XIV

Mr President,
Your Eminence,
Distinguished Civil and Religious Authorities,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am pleased to be here in this historic city, a crossroads at the heart of the continent, for this meeting entitled “To the Roots of Europe, for Peace and Unity.”  I thank you for the kind words just addressed to me… Read more »

Address by Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters,
Dear friends and representatives of various religious traditions,

It is with joy, but also with a keen sense of spiritual responsibility, that I stand among you today in Metz, a city of borders and crossroads, at the Robert Schuman Center, named after one of the founding fathers of the European Union… Read more »

Photo: Vatican Media Homily by Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters,

We are gathered for Evening Prayer in this place which, more than any other, has invited the people of Paris for centuries to lift their eyes towards heaven. Seven years have passed since the whole world, holding its breath, watched as the cathedral was engulfed in a terrible fire… Read more »

Message by Pope Leo XIV

Even Just One of These Children (Mt 18:10)

Dear brothers and sisters,

Each year the World Day of Migrants and Refugees invites us to turn our attention to different aspects of the complex phenomenon of migration. For this 112th World Day, the theme, “Even just one of these children,” draws our attention to the minors directly involved in the experience of migration and flight, to the care owed to them, and to the Lord’s promise that “whoever receives one such child in my name receives me” (Mk 9:37)… Read more »

Dialogue with the Holy Father
 

Question from Chloé

Holy Father, we thank you for your presence among us this evening and for this opportunity for dialogue that you are giving us.

My name is Chloé. I am 25 years old, and I am finishing my studies in pharmacology. I am part of a group of young Catholics from working-class neighborhoods in the Île-de-France region called La Cité Céleste… Read more »

Brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome!

As we continue our journey through the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, we come to the third chapter of the first part, which bears the intriguing title: “Man’s Activity Throughout the World”. The fundamental question is this: what is the value of human activity in the world, and therefore of technical, social and scientific progress? … Read more »