Meeting with the Pontificial Commission for Latin America, Pope Leo XIV encourages the Church in Latin America to accompany families that undergo the pain of substance abuse, violence, or poverty.
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The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem spoke on the final day of the Rimini Meeting, calling for greater diplomatic engagement by the West to halt the escalating violence in the Middle East. He also reiterated the need to build hope and foster interreligious dialogue from the ground up, rejecting the dehumanization of the other and supporting the two-state solution.
Delivering a keynote address to Christian lawmakers and political leaders gathered in Assisi, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, warned against allowing algorithms to “systematically infantilize entire societies.” He urged lawmakers to “establish binding legal guardrails, demand corporate transparency, reject the automation of human slaughter, and ensure that technology remains entirely subservient to the magnificent humanity that God has entrusted to our care.”
On the second day of the Vatican Secretary for Relations with States’ mission to Russia, he visited the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the seat of the Patriarch of Moscow. Earlier this week, he met with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, with whom he discussed matters of common interest to the two Churches.
From 25 to 27 August, representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean, together with participants with experience from Asia, Africa and Europe, are meeting to discuss prevention, recovery and social integration, and to put forward a response based on community, faith and shared responsibility in addressing addiction and the criminal recruitment of young people.
Greeting Polish pilgrims gathered to renew the Jasna Góra Vows of the Polish Nation, 70 years after they were first made in 1956, Pope Leo XIV said the vows’ call for moral renewal remains relevant today.
At least twenty bodies have been recovered after flash flooding in Nepal, with the death toll expected to rise dramatically as hundreds of peole, including many tourists, remain missing.
During his remarks to Italian pilgrims at his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV tells recently-confirmed young people that the Holy Spirit is “not a treasure to keep hidden,” but “a light to let shine each day,” and recalls that the Church this week commemorates Saints Augustine and Monica, reminding they are examples of faith who can inspire “a sincere and passionate search for the Truth of the Gospel,” so that faithful may bear witness to it joyfully in their daily lives.
At the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflects on the Second Vatican Council Fathers’ decision to promote liturgical reform, as he focuses on the 1963 Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium.
Meeting with Lutheran Bishops from Norway, Pope Leo XIV encourages all Christians to work together to promote peace and justice in our turbulent times.
