Pope Leo XIV’s Prayer Intention for June 2025

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

We join the Holy Father in praying that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his Heart, learn to have compassion on the world.

Homily of Pope Leo XIV at the Mass for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly and referred to Pope Francis and mentioned spouses who have been beatified and canonized, like the parents of St. Therese of the Child Jesus.

“Who has loved?” Pope’s General Audience – May 28, 2025

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

In his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, calling it "a path for transforming that question ['what must I do to inherit eternal life?' (Luke 10:25)], to pass from 'who loves me?' to 'who has loved?' .... The first question is the one we ask when we sit in the corner and wait, the second is the one that drives us to set out on the path."

Looking back on Rerum Novarum

Monday, May 26, 2025

Matthew Neugebauer

Pope Leo XIV chose his name primarily to highlight his most recent namesake Leo XIII, whose "historic encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question" to the challenges of his time. What concerns does the encyclical address? How does it speak to its time? And what has been its legacy 134 years later?

Homily of Pope Leo XIV at the Mass and Installation on the Roman Cathedra

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

On May 25, 2025, Pope Leo XIV was formally installed on the cathedra of the Diocese of Rome at a Mass in St. John Lateran Basilica. In his homily, he said that "communion is built primarily 'on our knees,' through prayer and constant commitment to conversion."