“I invited His Holiness to make an apostolic visit to Ukraine. Such a visit would bring real hope to all believers and to all our people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X.
An early signal that Leo XIV will build upon Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants could show that the church’s efforts are not tied to one pope but to 2,000 years of Catholic teaching.
Greg Heille, O.P., joins “Preach” host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., to reflect on the homiletic legacy of Pope Francis: always on message, spoken from the heart, simple without losing depth.
I listened to Pope Leo’s first messages with Augustinian ears. In his first words from the balcony, and then in his homily at his first Mass, I heard abiding themes from the Doctor of Grace.
So many who work today with migrants around the world have observed a human family where millions of people are on the move, suffering and persecuted. How can we best serve migrants in our social and intellectual apostolates?
“The way we communicate is of fundamental importance: we must say ‘no’ to the war of words and images, we must reject the paradigm of war,” Pope Leo told members of the media on Monday.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the first ever American pope, discusses the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.