Pope Leo XIV encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones.
Pope Leo XIV prayed the Angelus on Sunday, July 13, from Castel Gandolfo, where he is taking a two-week summer break.
Pope Leo XIV has tapped Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, to be the next bishop of Baker, a mission diocese in eastern Oregon.
“We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for creation,” the pope said.
The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 26 through Aug. 4.
The Vatican’s synod office has said that final reports from Synod on Synodality study groups have been postponed until the end of the year.
The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of July 20.
The “Mass for the Care of Creation,” inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, has prayers and Mass readings designed “to ask God for the ability to care for creation.”
A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope Francis’ rationale for restricting the Latin Mass.
“The position taken by Africa was also the position of so many bishops here in Europe. It’s not just an African exception,” Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo said.
Pope Leo XIV will impose the pallia at a Mass for the solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 29.
The pope addressed the synod’s 16th ordinary council at its offices just outside the Vatican, where members are meeting June 26–27.
“I think we’ve crossed a watershed, that fundamental line in the sand that a life is always to be protected,” Archbishop John Sherrington told EWTN News.
Speaking to over 400 bishops from 38 countries in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope also emphasized the importance of poverty and synodality in the ministry of a bishop.
Pope Leo XIV also met for the first time with the order’s grand master, Fra’ John Dunlap, at the Vatican on June 23.
Because it falls exactly six months before the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord, St. John’s birthday is sometimes known as “summer Christmas.”
Jonathan Roumie, castmates from “The Chosen,” and director Dallas Jenkins are at the Vatican this week after wrapping up three weeks of filming in southern Italy.
Members of Italy’s local and national governments will be the main participants in events for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Government Leaders on June 21–22.
Shrines have covered up their now controversial mosaics by accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik, but other institutions have taken a more tolerant approach.
A spokeswoman for the town of Castel Gandolfo told CNA that Pope Leo XIV is expected to arrive sometime during the first week of July.