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Pope Leo XIV addresses a crowd during a jubilee audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV at Jubilee Audience: The Cross of Christ is "greatest discovery" of Life

Sep 6, 2025

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 appealed for help for Sudan during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Leo XIV Pleads for Help for "humanitarian catastrophe" in Sudan

Sep 3, 2025

Pope Leo XIV pleaded for assistance for the people of Sudan, who are experiencing violence, famine, natural disasters, and disease.

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV Assures Persons Affected by Deadly Landslide in Sudan’s Darfur Region “his spiritual closeness”

Sep 2, 2025

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 greets the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square from the popemobile during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 6, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

This is Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer Intention for the Month of September

Sep 2, 2025

Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of September is for our relationship with all of creation. 

Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Mass for the opening of the general chapter of the Order of St. Augustine on Sept. 1, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Augustine in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Opens Augustinians’ General Chapter with Call to Listening, Humility, and Unity

Sep 1, 2025

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 celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation at Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Supports "important and urgent" Creation Day September 1

Sep 1, 2025

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 speaks from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square during the Sunday Angelus on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Prays for Minneapolis School Shooting Victims, Laments "pandemic of arms"

Aug 31, 2025

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 named Pope Leo XIV (pictured in the Paul VI Audience Hall) one of its Top 100 most influential thinkers concerning AI on Aug. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Listed in Time Magazine’s "Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence"

Aug 29, 2025

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 accepts the Medal of St. Augustine from Father Robert P. Hagan, OSA, prior provincial of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova (right) and Father Joseph Farrell, OSA, vicar general of the Order of St. Augustine (left) in a video released on Aug. 28, 2025. / Credit: Screenshot from the YouTube page of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova

Pope Leo XIV Accepts Medal of St. Augustine: "It’s an honor held dearly"

Aug 29, 2025

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.

Stephen Cardinal Brislin of the Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg in South Africa. Credit: ACI Africa

Pope Leo XIV Appoints South Africa’s Cardinal Brislin to Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy

Aug 28, 2025

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 addresses a delegation of political representatives and civic leaders from the Diocese of Créteil, France, on Aug. 28, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Urges Catholic Politicians to Follow the Gospel in Public Life

Aug 28, 2025

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 speaks to pilgrims at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Recalls the "life and witness" of St. Augustine on His Feast Day

Aug 28, 2025

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 prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo Prays for Victims of "terrible tragedy" in Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting

Aug 27, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said he was offering prayers for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting.

Pilgrims reach out to Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: "Christian hope is not evasion, but decision"

Aug 27, 2025

Addressing thousands of pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 27 emphasized Jesus’ embrace of suffering.

Pope Leo XIV, whose recent discourses will be published in a book on Aug. 27, waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

"Let there be peace!": Book of Pope Leo XIV’s Discourses to be Published August 27

Aug 26, 2025

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.

The Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Pope Leo XIV to Inaugurate Integral Ecology Center in Castel Gandolfo in September

Aug 26, 2025

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 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.

Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez is president of Nicaragua’s bishops’ conference. / Credit: Alonso3215 (CC0 1.0)

Pope Leo XIV Receives Exiled President of Nicaraguan Bishops’ Conference

Aug 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV received the exiled president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, who was expelled in 2024.

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd during his Angelus address on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus Challenges Presumption of Those Who Think They are Already Saved

Aug 24, 2025

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.

Pope Leo XIV gives his Sunday Angelus address from the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 24, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

President Zelenskyy Shares Letter from Pope Leo XIV on Ukraine’s Independence Day 

Aug 24, 2025

“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.