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Pope Leo XIV reads the canonization formula declaring seven blessed saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope asks: When there are cries for help, do Christians respond with love?

October 20, 2025

Pope Leo XIV is seen in a screen grab from his video appeal Oct. 13, 2025, asking Catholic parishes around the world to observe World Mission Sunday Oct. 19 and to support the missions with their prayers and financial contributions. (CNS photo/screen grab, Vatican Media)

Pope asks Catholics to support missions with prayer, donations

October 16, 2025

Pope Leo XIV greets fourth grader Augie Wilk, who was elected "Pope Augustine" in a mock conclave at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in Chicago, during the pope’s weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2025. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago looks on. The students’ reenactment May 6 of a papal election went viral days before Pope Leo’s own election May 8. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Jesus wants to be close, rekindle hope, on life's journey, pope says

October 09, 2025

A person asks for alms near St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Love for the poor is hallmark of faith, pope says in first exhortation

October 09, 2025

Prayer

Pope asks everyone to pray the rosary for peace throughout October

September 26, 2025

People shelter under umbrellas as rain falls near the end of Pope Leo XIV's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

God's love can reach anyone, even at 'rock bottom,' pope says

September 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV leads an audience for participants in the Jubilee of Justice, which brought thousands of judges, lawyers, court officials, canon lawyers and law professors from about 100 countries to St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

True justice promotes dignity, equality, forgiveness, pope tells judges

September 22, 2025

Msgr. Laurence Spiteri, a judge on the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, holds a public conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. at a Jubilee of Justice event in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome Sept. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

US Supreme Court justice speaks at Vatican Jubilee of Justice

September 22, 2025

Pope Leo XIV greets a child dressed as the pope as he rides in the popemobile during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Relentless effort, quick action are not always the answer, pope says

September 17, 2025

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily during a prayer vigil as part of the Jubilee of Consolation in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sept. 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope urges church to listen to sorrows of abuse victims, walk together

September 16, 2025