Category: Pope Leo
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Train vision to discern good and act like yeast: Leo
In his Angelus message on Sunday 19 July, Pope Leo encouraged Christians to train our vision to discern good from evil, and to learn God’s way of acting like yeast in flour. This is his message: Following the parable of the sower, Jesus continues to address the crowds using a series of images: the good…
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Video & podcast: AI in light of Magnifica Humanitas
This month’s ACI webinar on Wednesday 10 June 2026 will focus on Pope Leo’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.
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Lead society in a new direction, Leo tells young people
Addressing a prayer vigil in Madrid, Spain on Saturday 6 June, Pope Leo encouraged young people to understand society and to transform it as witnesses of the Gospel.
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Book: History and Teaching of Catholic Social Doctrine
The former Fr Robert Prevost OSA, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote the preface for a new book “The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church: History and Teaching” by his Augustinian colleague, Fr John Lydon OSA.
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Cross disrupts ‘imperialist occupation of world’: Pope Leo
The Cross disrupts “imperialist occupation of the world from within,” Pope Leo said in a pointed comment during his homily for the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday 2 April 2026.
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The vast field of the lay apostolate
Vatican II emphasises the mission of lay people, Pope Leo said as he began his catechesis on Chapter IV of the Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium.
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Pope Leo appeals for peace
In his Angelus message on Sunday 15 March, Pope Leo called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.
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Leo reconciled lay movements & his Peruvian diocese
As bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIII, reconciled the diocese with lay movements, which had become estranged under previous bishops.
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Too many workplace accidents: Pope Leo
Addressing a gathering of the Professional Register of the Association of Labour Consultants, Pope Leo warned that there are still too many workplace accidents.
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YCW and YCS martyrs beatified at Notre Dame
Twenty YCW and YCS leaders, chaplains and seminarians were beatified alongside a group of Scouts and Catholic Action chaplains at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, on Saturday 13 December 2025.
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Creation crying out in floods, storms, heat
“Creation is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat,” Pope Leo said in a video message to churches of the Global South gathered at Belem, Brazil for the COP30 climate talks.
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Video: Pope Leo’s Dilexi Te
Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR presented the October 2025 ACI webinar on Pope Leo XIV’s first major document, the Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love of the Poor.
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Popular movements combat exclusion: Leo
Addressing participants at the World Meetint of Popular Movements in Rome, Pope Leo called for action to fight exclusion and marginalisation.
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Formation a synodal priority: Pope Leo
In an address for the opening of the pastoral year for the Diocese of Rome, Pope emphasised the need for a broad-based Christia formation for families and young people.
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French YCW and YCS leaders to be beatified
The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has recognised the martyrdom of more than twenty French YCW and YCS lay leaders as well as chaplains and seminarians linked to the movements.
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Vatican II emphasised lay apostolate: Pope
Vatican II strongly encouraged the lay apostolate and apostolic associations, Pope Leo has told leaders of Catholic international movements and organisations.
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Become ‘fishers of humanity’: Pope Leo
Addressing a Rome seminar on “Evangelising with the Families of Today and Tomorrow,” Pope Leo reminded participants they are called to be “fishers of humanity.”
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Growing demand for Church’s social doctrine: Leo
Addressing a conference organised by the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation, Pope Leo XIV said that there is a growing demand for the Church’s social doctrine that needs to be met.
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Leo credits Cardijn movement for vocation
Pope Leo’s election is a “wonderful manifestation of the Holy Spirit at work,” according to Chicago priest, Fr Lou Cameli, Cardinal Blase Cupich’s delegate for formation and mission.