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Pope leads prayer vigil for people suffering pain or hardship
Pain must never give rise to violence and every Catholic needs to learn to safeguard with tenderness those who are vulnerable, Pope Leo XIV said during a prayer vigil for people suffering illness, bereavement, violence or abuse. Source: OSV News.
Catholic allied health professionals hold retreat day
More than 80 Catholic allied health professionals gathered simultaneously at four Australian locations for a retreat titled ‘Hope in the Imago Dei”. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Canadian bishops call for debt relief for poor countries
Faith-based organisations are commending a new pastoral letter from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops pressing the Global North to wipe out low-income countries’ crippling debt and consider the ecological burden it has placed on the Global South. Source: NCR Online.
Pope Leo welcomes prisoners on pilgrimage
Three inmates from Venice’s Santa Maria Maggiore Prison are among a group of pilgrims received by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican yesterday. Source: Vatican News.
Domus Australia sees Signs of Hope
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP flung open the shutters of his window to welcome more than 250 English-speaking Jubilee of Youth pilgrims from across the world to Domus Australia pilgrim guest house in Rome. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
‘You are the sign a different world is possible’, Pope tells youth
Pope Leo XIV yesterday told more than a million Catholic youth at a closing Mass for a weeklong Jubilee event that they are “the sign that a different world is possible”, where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons. Source: Crux.
Pope and 120,000 young pilgrims call for peace in the world
The enthusiastic joy of young people, who love Jesus and want all wars to stop, will be heard to the ends of the earth, Pope Leo XIV said when he welcomed tens of thousands of cheering young men and women to Rome for their Jubilee. Source: OSV News.
Pope tells digital missionaries to help foster peace in the world
Pope Leo XIV admitted science and technology are influencing “the way we live in the world” in a speech yesterday to influencers and digital missionaries in Rome for a special 2025 Jubilee event specially organised for them. Source: Crux.
Digital missionaries go from online to on site for Jubilee celebration
Hundreds of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers from around the world have gathered in Rome for the first Jubilee for Digital Missionaries and Influencers, a two-day celebration aimed at fostering communion, deepening mission, and sharing hope through digital platforms. Source: Vatican News.