On the day I was entrusted with the ministry of the Successor of Peter, exactly one year ago, the Church celebrated the Supplication to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of #Pompeii. I therefore had to come here, to place my service under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. #PastoralVisit https://t.co/uui9x3qPhh
One year has passed since the white smoke of 8 May 2025 announced to the world the election of Pope Francis’ successor.
Our video retraces the most significant moments of the American Pontiff’s first year, from audiences to apostolic journeys to Türkiye, Lebanon, and Africa.
On February 2, 2026, His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo visited St. Augustine's Seminary to mark the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord.
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Looking beyond the Jubilee, #PopeLeo prays:
"After the holy doors, may other doors now open:
doors of homes and oases of peace
where dignity may flower again,
where nonviolence is taught,
where the art of reconciliation is learned."
On this Solemnity of All Saints, it is a great joy to include Saint John Henry Newman among the Doctors of the Church, and, at the same time, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the World of Education, to name him, together with Saint Thomas Aquinas, as co-Patron of the Church’s educational mission.
With these words of the Formula of Canonization, Pope Leo XIV officially proclaimed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis saints of the Catholic Church.
Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces. https://t.co/aXAe9fjN35
Mary's song, the Magnificat, strengthens the hope of the humble, those who hunger, God's hard-working servants. Those who bear witness to tenderness and forgiveness in places of conflict, and all peacemakers who build bridges in a broken world, are the joy of the Church. They are her permanent fruitfulness, the first fruits of the Kingdom to come. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 1:39-56)
That is why we can always hope. At the tombs of the Apostles, which have been the object of pilgrimage for almost two thousand years, we come to realize that we too can pass from conversion to conversion.
On this vigil of #Pentecost, we are deeply aware of God's closeness and His Spirit who joins our lives to that of Jesus. We are caught up in the new things that God brings about, so that His desire for the fullness of life will prevail over the power of death.
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Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Francis Leo called on the faithful to honor the most Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout the month of June rather than “using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine revelation.” https://t.co/nE3bpqEEGE
Faith is above all a response to a gaze of love. The greatest mistake we can make as Christians is, in the words of Saint Augustine, “to presume that the grace of Christ consists in His example and not in the gift of His person.”
Together, we will rebuild the credibility of a wounded Church, sent to a wounded humanity, within a wounded creation. We are not yet perfect, but we must be credible: our lives must be transparent, visible, and credible!
The more we let ourselves be convinced and transformed by the Gospel — allowing the power of the Spirit to purify our heart, to make our words straightforward, our desires honest and clear, and our actions generous — the more capable we are of proclaiming its message.
If we Christians and members of other religious traditions stand together, free from ideological and political conditioning, we can be effective in saying “no” to war and “yes” to peace, “no” to an economy that impoverishes people and the Earth and “yes” to integral development.
This is the hour for love! The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters. With my predecessor Leo XIII, we can ask ourselves today: If this criterion “were to prevail in the world, would not every conflict cease and peace return?” (Rerum Novarum)
Love and unity: these are the two dimensions of the mission entrusted to Peter by Jesus. Peter can carry out this task only because his own life was touched by the infinite and unconditional love of God, even in the hour of his failure and denial.
Pope Leo XIV: “I was chosen without any merit of my own. And now, with fear and trembling, I come to you as a brother, who desires to be a servant of your faith and your joy.”
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