Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 5 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the “new saints” the world needs today.
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Pope Leo encourages Catholics to deepen prayer through Liturgy of the Hours
The Liturgy of the Hours is the church’s official daily prayer, consisting of psalms, Scripture readings, hymns and prayers recited at designated times throughout the day. Pope Leo said the tradition of prayer is “no longer passed on” even in many Christian families, even though prayer is a “fundamental dimension of our humanity.”
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Pope Leo will make 12-day trip to Peru, Argentina and Uruguay, Vatican announces
Leo will visit Latin America in November and he will spend more than half of his time in Peru.
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Live Zoom Panel: Analyzing the Impact and Reception of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
Join America Media’s team of experts for an exclusive, subscriber-only event to examine the core issues, public response to and overall impact of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ nearly three months after its publishing.
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Latin Mass, schism and cardinals in the media: The liturgy wars are back (and never really left)
As prominent prelates clash over the traditional Latin Mass, Pope Leo XIV’s response may reveal his deepest instincts about authority, unity and tradition.
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97-year-old cardinal celebrates Mass at site of communist labor camp where he was imprisoned for 18 years
Cardinal Ernest Simoni returned on July 31 to the site of the forced-labor camp where he had been imprisoned for 18 years under Albania’s communist regime.
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A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV
Patti Smith has said that while she is not Catholic, she was drawn in particular to Pope Francis and his “gentle, open, and steadfast sense of humanity.”
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Pope Leo XIV on what he loves about America
In a brief interview with NBC News, Pope Leo revealed that he hopes to visit the United States soon.
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Pope Leo XIV to offer public Masses and audiences every week of August
Here is a look at the pope’s schedule for the rest of the summer.
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Pope Leo to young Catholics: Jesus doesn’t want you to be couch potatoes
The church “needs your holy rebelliousness, your pure energy, and your desire to transform situations of suffering into spaces of hope,” the pope said to youth in a video message.