"By incorporating us into Christ, the Eucharist teaches us to adopt the very style of life of the Lord Jesus."
"Continue to pray, so that, by the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the seeds I scattered may bear abundant fruit."
Promote paths of dialogue, pray for paths of dialogue: Pope Leo welcomes Iran news but urges renewed prayer for Ukraine.
Pope Leo is continuing his reflection on the importance of the liturgy, drawing from Vatican II. Today he spoke about the gestures -- kneeling, the sign of peace, etc.
A brief moment during Pope Leo XIV’s audience this week offered a striking image of compassion interrupting ceremony.
Pope Leo XIV began this May 20 with a series of reflections on the document from the Second Vatican Council that brought about big changes in the Church.
"Let us ask the Virgin to obtain this gift for us: that love for the Holy Mother Church may grow in all of us. So be it!"
Are you too focused on what is immediately visible? Instead, we should measure and evaluate everything from the perspective of our final destination.
Pope Leo says his time in the four countries of Africa was an "inestimable treasure for my heart and my ministry."
... not a privilege for the few, but a gift that requires every baptized person to strive ...
"The Church is present wherever her children profess and bear witness to the Gospel: in the workplace, in civil society and in all human relationships"
"The Catholic Church is founded on the Apostles," Pope Leo recalled, in noting God's plan for how the Church exists in the world.
Before a Wednesday general audience began, one very small guest in St. Peter’s Square managed to steal hearts — including, it seemed, Pope Leo XIV’s.
The Holy Father continued his reflection on Vatican II, and looked at the reality known as the “sensus fidei,” that “sense of faith” that the Church as a whole enjoys.
Pope Leo reminds us we are called to build the "spiritual edifice which is the body of Christ, through communion and charity among ourselves."
This text "makes us grateful to belong to the Church," Pope Leo said, as he began a series of reflections on Lumen Gentium.
Sacred Scripture is "entrusted to the Church" and "preserved and explained" by the Church, he said.
