General Audiences

Pope at Audience: Sincere sorrow can open door to conversion and joy

13/08/2025   Paul VI Audience Hall, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. III. The Passover of Jesus. 2. The betrayal. “Surely it is not I?” (Mk 14,19)

Dear brothers and sisters,

Let us continue our journey in the school of the Gospel, following Jesus’ steps in the final days of his life. Today we will pause at an intimate, dramatic, yet also profoundly true scene: the moment at which, during the Passover supper, Jesus reveals that one of the Twelve is about to betray him: “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me” (Mk 14:18)… Read more »

Pope at Audience: Prepare for the Passover of daily life

06/08/2025   St. Peter's Square, the Vatican

Homily by Pope Leo XIV

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. III. The Passover of Jesus. 1. The preparation of the supper. “Make the preparations for us there” (Mk 14:15)

Dear brothers and sisters,

Let us continue our Jubilee journey in the discovery of the face of Christ, in whom our hope takes shape and consistency… Read more »

Pope at Audience: May our means of communication heal you and not trouble you

30/07/2025   St. Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our hope. II. The life of Jesus. 12. The healing of a deaf man with a speech impediment.  They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.” (Mk 7:37)

Dear brothers and sisters,

With this catechesis, we conclude our journey through the public life of Jesus, marked by encounters, parables, and healings… Read more »

Pope Francis: We must release all burdens holding us back from God

09/04/2025

Dear brothers and sisters,

Today we will look at another of Jesus’ encounters, narrated by the Gospels. This time, however, the person encountered does not have a name. The evangelist Mark presents him simply as “a man” (10:17). He is a man who has observed the commandments ever since his youth but who, despite this, has not yet found the meaning of his life… Read more »

Pope: Even if you fear you’re incapable of changing, don’t lose hope

02/04/2025

Vatican News

Dear brothers and sisters,

Today we will continue to contemplate Jesus’ encounters with some figures from the Gospel. This time, I would like to focus on Zacchaeus: an episode that is particularly close to my heart, because it has a special place in my spiritual journey.

The Gospel of Luke presents Zacchaeus to us and one who seems irredeemably lost… Read more »

Pope Francis: Even if we hit rock bottom, God lets us start over with Him

26/03/2025

File photo of one of Pope Francis’ General Audience  (Vatican Media)

Dear brothers and sisters,

After contemplating the encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus, who went in search of Jesus, today we will reflect on those moments in which it seems that He is in fact waiting right there, at that crossroads in our life. They are encounters that surprise us, and at the beginning we are perhaps even a little diffident; we try to be prudent and to understand what is happening… Read more »

Pope’s audience catechesis: In Him we find the hope to face the changes in our lives and be born again

19/03/2025

Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our hope II. The life of Jesus. The encounter 1. Nicodemus. “You must be born from above” (Jn 3:7b)

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

With this catechesis we will begin to contemplate some of the encounters narrated in the Gospels, to understand the way Jesus gives hope. Indeed, they are encounters that enlighten life and bring hope… Read more »

Pope Francis: Like Mary and Joseph, let’s search for the Lord with hope

05/03/2025

File Photo: The Paul VI Hall during one of the Pope’s previous General Audiences  (Vatican Media)

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

In this last catechesis dedicated to the childhood of Jesus, we will start from the episode in which, at twelve years of age, He stays in the Temple without telling His parents, who are anxiously looking for Him and find Him after three days… Read more »

Pope Francis: Let us imitate Simeon and Anna, pilgrims of hope

27/02/2025

Armenian icon of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

Today we will contemplate the beauty of “Jesus Christ, our hope” (1 Tim 1:1), in the mystery of His presentation at the Temple.

In the narratives of Jesus’ infancy, the evangelist Luke shows us Mary and Joseph’s obedience to the Law of the Lord and to all its prescriptions… Read more »