EARTHDAY.ORG and global youth movements celebrate the Holy See’s decision to place climate education at the heart of its official climate policy. The commitment, included in the Vatican’s NDCs under the Paris Agreement.
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In a message for the 40th World Youth Day Pope Leo XIV reminds young people that as Christians they have a responsibility to stand alongside those who suffer and become active artisans of peace.
The story of Blessed Peter To Rot cannot be told apart from the upheavals of World War II. When Japanese forces occupied Papua New Guinea, foreign missionaries were imprisoned, leaving catechists like To Rot to guide local communities in faith. Blessed Peter To Rot’s defiance of polygamy was his ultimate sacrifice. Archbishop Tatamai gives first hand witnesss from stories told.
Pope Leo celebrates Vespers at the Domus Australia, a spiritual home for Australian pilgrims in Rome.
The Holy See Secretary of State speaks to Vatican Media on the second anniversary of Hamas’s “inhuman” attack on Israel, which unleashed the destruction of the Gaza Strip. He says that what is happening in Gaza is “inhuman”, and that he’s struck by the turnout at peace marches. He adds that antisemitism is a cancer that must be eradicated.
Representatives of Israel and Hamas are in Egypt for indirect talks on the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump.
In the south of Bogotá, in what was once a middle-class Colombian neighborhood, lies the “Barrio San Bernardo.” Today, this area bears the marks of marginalization and despair, but within it, seeds of hope are being planted by a young parish priest, Fr. Juan Felipe Quevedo.
In a new Apostlic Letter issued “motu proprio,” Pope Leo XIV provides new guidance on the financial investment activities of the Holy See.
Pope Leo XIV presides at Mass on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of the Vatican Gendarmerie Corps, and invites members of the police force to live their mission as “witnesses of peace”.
Speaking at the close of Mass in St Peter’s Square, Pope Leo condemns both the “immense suffering” of Gazans and the rise of “antisemitic hatred” worldwide, and expresses his hope that an Israel-Hamas peace deal will be finalised “as soon as possible”.
