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Pope at Audience: Reflect on death, our time on earth prepares us for eternity

10/12/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our hope. IV. The Resurrection of Christ and the challenges of the contemporary world. 7. The Pasch of Jesus Christ: the final answer to the question of our death.

Message by Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! Welcome to you all!

Pope at Audience: Reflect on death, our time on earth prepares us for eternity

Many ancient peoples developed rites and customs linked to the cult of the dead, to accompany and to recall those who journeyed towards the supreme mystery… Read more »

Act of veneration of Mary Immaculate – the Pope

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

08/12/2025   Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy

Prayer of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary

Sliema għalik, o Marija!
Ifraħ, mimlija bil-grazzja,
b’dik il-grazzja li, bħal dawl ħelu, iddawwal
lil dawk li fuqhom tilma l-preżenza ta’ Alla.

Il-Misteru sa mill-bidu geżwrek fih,
sa minn ġuf ommok beda jwettaq fik ħwejjeġ kbar,
li malajr talbu l-kunsens tiegħek,
dik l-“Iva” li nebbħet tant “iva” oħrajn… Read more »

Pope at Audience: Only hope in Christ can give our lives meaning

26/11/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Message by Pope Leo XIV

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome!

The Pasch of Christ illuminates the mystery of life and allows us to look at it with hope. This is not always easy or obvious. Many lives, in every part of the world, appear laborious, painful, filled with problems and obstacles to be overcome. Yet human beings receive life as a gift: they do not ask for it, they do not choose it, they experience it in its mystery from the first to the last day… Read more »

Pope at General Audience: Without fraternity, we cannot survive

12/11/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Homily of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV

Catechesis Cycle – Jubilee 2025: Jesus Christ Our Hope. 4. The Resurrection of Christ and the Challenges of today’s world. 4. Easter spirituality animates fraternity. “Love One Another As I Have Loved You” (Cf. Jn 15:12)

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

To believe in the death and resurrection of Christ and to live paschal spirituality imbues life with hope and encourages us to invest in goodness… Read more »

Pope at Audience: the Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism

29/10/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Catechesis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate

Dear brothers and sisters, pilgrims in faith and representatives of the various religious traditions! Good morning, welcome!

At the centre of today’s reflection, in this General Audience dedicated to interreligious dialogue, I would like to place the Lord Jesus’ words to the Samaritan woman: “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (Jn 4:24)… Read more »

Pope at Audience: The Resurrection transforms every aspect of our lives

08/10/2025   St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. 10. Rekindling. “Were not our hearts burning within us?” (Lk 24:32)

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

Today I would like to invite you to reflect on a surprising aspect of Christ’s Resurrection: his humility. If we think back to the Gospel accounts, we realize that the risen Lord does nothing spectacular to impose himself on the faith of his disciples… Read more »

Pope at Audience: Trust in God’s timing and grace

17/09/2025   Saint Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. III. The Passover of Jesus. 7. Death. “In the garden was a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.”

Dear brothers and sisters,

In our journey of catechesis on Jesus our hope, today we will contemplate the mystery of Holy Saturday. The Son of God lies in the tomb… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: God transforms the Cross into a means of life

Pope Leo XIV during the Angelus on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

14/09/2025   Saint Peter's Square, the Vatican

Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Sunday!

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, commemorating the discovery of the Cross by Saint Helen in Jerusalem in the fourth century, and the return of the precious relic to the Holy City by the Emperor Heraclius.

But what does celebrating this feast mean for us today? … Read more »

Pope at Jubilee Audience: the life of Jesus is the treasure

06/09/2025   Saint Peter's Square, the Vatican

Dear brothers and sisters, today we reflected more deeply on the gift of hope. Like children digging in the earth, we are called to dig beneath the surface of life with curiosity and trust to discover the hidden treasure of God’s Kingdom. Once freed from persecution, the early Christians began to excavate the land in places connected to Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection. Among them was the mother of Emperor Constantine, Empress Helena, who, motivated by her humble faith, found Jesus’ cross in Jerusalem… Read more »

Pope at Audience: ‘I thirst’ is Jesus’ cry for love and relationship

03/09/2025   Saint Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. III. The Passover of Jesus. 5. The Crucifiction. «I thirst» (Jn 19:28)

Dear brothers and sisters,

At the heart of the account of the Passion, in the most luminous and at the same time darkest moment of Jesus’ life, the Gospel of John gives us two words that contain an immense mystery: “I thirst” (19:28), and immediately afterwards: “It is finished” (19:30)… Read more »