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2025 Jubilee of Hope

As part of Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV held an Oct. 31, 2025 audience with teachers. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Gives Catholic Educators Lessons from St. Augustine

Oct 31, 2025

Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love, and joy.  

“Use technology wisely, but don’t let technology use you,” Pope Leo XIV said during his address to hundreds of university students gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 30, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

"Don’t let the algorithm write your story," Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Young People

Oct 30, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 30 addressed hundreds of university students as part of the Jubilee of the World of Education.

Pope Leo XIV addresses the audience in his homily at a Mass on Oct. 27, 2025, marking both the start of the academic year at Rome’s pontifical universities and the opening day of the Jubilee of the World of Education. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Leo XIV Urges University Students to Feed "hunger for truth and meaning"

Oct 27, 2025

Pope Leo XIV urged university students to feed their “hunger for truth and meaning,” lamenting that modern education often loses sight of the “big picture.”

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Oct. 26, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Leo: Don’t Let Tension Between Tradition, Novelty Become "harmful polarizations"

Oct 26, 2025

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the closing of the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, part of the Church’s wider Jubilee of Hope in 2025. 

Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Leo XIV Gives Advice for Living with Hope in a "troubled era"

Oct 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings are often challenged, is to embrace the hope that is “not knowing.” 

Pope Leo XIV greets those gathered for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 9, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Urges Consecrated Persons to be "hungry for holiness"

Oct 9, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.

Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Sept. 11, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Responds to Aspiring Doctor Who Asks "What does the future hold for us?"

Sep 30, 2025

Pope Leo XIV responded with a father’s heart to a 21-year-old Roman medical student who asked him “What does the future hold for us?”

Silvia Toma before participating in the vigil with Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News

Jubilee of Consolation: Mother Who Lost Her Only Son Never Reproached God for Anything

Sep 16, 2025

Silvia Toma has a scar on her soul: Four years ago she buried her 34-year-old only son, who had two little daughters.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation on Sept. 15, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Where Pain is Deep, Hope in Jesus Must be Stronger: Pope Leo XIV at Jubilee of Consolation

Sep 15, 2025

With a call to trust that Jesus is the one who dries the tears of those who suffer, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation on Monday.

Pope Leo XIV greets French altar servers during an audience on Aug. 25, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Lack of Priests is a "great misfortune" for the Catholic Church

Aug 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV said the shortage of priests is “a great misfortune” for the Catholic Church during an audience Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis IX, with French altar servers.

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square, Wednesday, June 25, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

From AI to the White Sox: Pope Leo XIV’s First 100 Days Break New Ground

Aug 16, 2025

Here are some of the highlights of the first 100 days of Pope Leo XIV.

The August 2025 Youth Jubilee in Egypt is taking place in two phases this month. The jubilee is under the patronage and presence of apostolic vicar of the Latins in Egypt, Bishop Claudio Lurati, organized by his deputy Monsignor Antoine Tawfiq and Sister Chiara Latif of the Franciscan Elizabethan Sisters. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Apostolic Vicariate of the Latins in Egypt

From Rome to Alexandria: Catholic Youth Jubilee Continues its Mission in Egypt

Aug 14, 2025

The Latin Church in Alexandria, Egypt, has launched its own Catholic Youth Jubilee after the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, taking place in two phases this month.

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Basilica on Aug. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Evil is Real but Does not Have the Last Word

Aug 13, 2025

Continuing his jubilee catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” the Holy Father continued his reflection on the Last Supper recorded in the Gospel of St. Mark. 

Pope Leo XIV waves at pilgrims from South Korea before the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Youth at the University of Rome Tor Vergata on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Announces Dates for 2027 World Youth Day in South Korea

Aug 3, 2025

Pope Leo XIV announced that the dates of the next World Youth Day, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, will be Aug. 3–8, 2027.

Several of the participants at the 2025 EWTN Summer Academy in Rome, an intensive program in religious journalism and digital storytelling, come from places where Catholics live their faith amid severe adversity. / Credit: Lemmy Ogbonnaya Ijioma/EWTN Summer Academy

Jubilee of Youth: Meet the Brave Catholic Communicators who are Telling their Stories

Jul 31, 2025

Meet some of the bold Catholic communicators in training at the 2025 EWTN Summer Academy in Rome, which coincides with this year’s Jubilee of Youth.

Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile during a surprise ride around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican following the Jubilee of Youth welcome Mass on July 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

"Your voices will be heard to the ends of the earth": Pope Leo XIV to Youth Jubilee Pilgrims

Jul 30, 2025

In three languages, Pope Leo XIV offered extemporaneous greetings to the thousands of participants at the welcoming Mass for the Jubilee of Youth on Tuesday.

Pope Leo XIV blesses Elizabeth Busby and her baby on the way at the Mass for Digital Missionaries on July 29, 2025, at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. A family and marriage therapist, Busby hosts the “Discerning Marriage” podcast and developed the Next Step formation program for people who are discerning marriage. / Credit: Vatican Media

Evangelizing on Social Media More Than Just Gaining Followers: Pope Leo XIV to Catholic Digital Influencers

Jul 29, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday participated in the Mass celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on the occasion of the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.

Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd at the Angelus on July 13, 2025, at the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Stefano Costantino/EWTN News

Catholic Migrants Save Countries That Welcome Them from "spiritual desertification": Pope Leo XIV

Jul 25, 2025

“With their spiritual enthusiasm and vitality, [migrants] can help revitalize ecclesial communities that have become rigid and weighed down,” Pope Leo XIV noted July 25.