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The Holy Father greeted hundreds of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square from his popemobile, blessing several babies and accepting various gifts from people from different countries.
Pope Leo XIV pleaded for assistance for the people of Sudan, who are experiencing violence, famine, natural disasters, and disease.
Pope Leo XIV has expressed his spiritual solidarity with all persons affected by the August 31 landslide that reportedly wiped out Tarsin village in Sudan’s Central Darfur region, killing at least 1,000 people.
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of September is for our relationship with all of creation.
Nearly 100 Augustinian priests from around the world, who are participating in this year’s chapter, attended the pope’s Mass held inside the Basilica of St. Augustine in Rome.
Pope Leo XIV has voiced his support for the Sept. 1 celebration of the World Day of Prayer for Creation, an ecumenical initiative encouraged by Pope Francis.
Pope Leo XIV prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis and the children who die around the world from gun violence.
Time magazine included Pope Leo XIV in its 2025 list of the “World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence” on Aug. 28.
Pope Leo XIV accepted the highest honor of the Augustinian order, the Medal of St. Augustine, in a video released on the saint’s feast day, Aug. 28.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed members to the Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy, including Stephen Cardinal Brislin of the Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg in South Africa.
Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholic politicians to live coherently as Christians and follow the Gospel, even when performing their public duties in a secular polity.
Pope Leo XIV recalled what the “life and witness” of St. Augustine means for Christians on the day the Catholic Church celebrates his feast day, Aug. 28.
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said he was offering prayers for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting.
Addressing thousands of pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 27 emphasized Jesus’ embrace of suffering.
On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses from the first months of his pontificate in a book signed by the pontiff.
Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to inaugurate on Sept. 5 Borgo Laudato Si’, a development dedicated to the care of creation inspired by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical.
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 received the exiled president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, who was expelled in 2024.
Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 24, the pope reflected on the day’s Gospel reading from Luke.
“With a heart wounded by the violence that ravages your land, I address you on this day of your national feast,” the pope wrote in the letter.