The Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication has launched a new prayer campaign in which Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to pray with him for the great challenges facing the world. Source: CNA.
The “Pray with the Pope” initiative is part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, which, during Pope Francis’s pontificate, ran “The Pope’s Video” project through which the faithful were invited each month to unite in prayer for a specific intention.
Continuing this mission, the new campaign not only invites people to pray but also offers a specific prayer from Leo XIV, who will present his monthly intention from a renewed perspective, encouraging an intimate and serene experience with Christ.
According to Jesuit Fr Cristobal Fones, international director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, who presented the initiative on January 7 in Rome alongside Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, the initiative proposes “a shared inner experience that aspires to transform life from within”.
The focus of this new phase, as the Jesuit priest explained, “will be more centred on supporting a spiritual experience, which often becomes difficult amidst our busy and noise-filled daily lives.”
“The Pope is very aware of this and wants to help us, inviting us to pray together for others,” he added. The “update” of the initiative, according to Fr Fones, stems “from the profound need we have to slow down in order to achieve greater depth in our decisions and relationships”.
With a simple and accessible format, “Pray with the Pope” aims to allow anyone, wherever they are, to join in the Holy Father’s prayer intention, which this year 2026 begins with the invitation to “learn to pray with the most definitive Word, which is not our own, so full of empty promises, but Jesus Christ”.
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‘Pray with the Pope’: Leo XIV proposes monthly prayer for the challenges of the world (By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú, CNA)
