#pope-leo-xiv

#pope-leo-xiv

When I watch television last night, and I'm watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly wounded with bullets, I say, That's not our country. We have to do something,' Trump said in early September.

Leo's visit to Turkiye will come during the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council, held in what is now the Turkish city of Iznik. He is expected to meet with Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's 260 million Orthodox Christians, for celebrations marking the council, which established key tenets of the Christian faith.

Leo sat in a throne in a courtyard of the Apostolic Palace as the new guards in their distinctive yellow, blue and red "gala uniforms" held their right arm up in a three-fingered salute and pledged "with all my strength, sacrifice and if necessary my life" to defend him and serve him. The Vatican didn't say why Leo decided to preside over the ceremony, though he had attended it in years past as a cardinal.

Donna Sagna Davis emphasizes the sense of community and connection among neighbors and visitors, saying, "Food always brings people together, drinking. The outreaches that I've been a part of - they always had food."

"We are closer than ever to young people who suffer the most serious evils, which are caused by other human beings. We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine..."

In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees stand as messengers of hope. Their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see.

Pope Leo XIV urged for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike that killed three and injured ten at a Catholic Church.

Even popes need to take vacations. Beginning with Pope Urban VIII in 1626, some popes have chosen to escape the oppressive summer heat of Rome by spending time at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

"This afternoon, I will travel to Castel Gandolfo, where I intend to have a short period of rest," Pope Leo XIV shared in a devotional message.

It is disheartening to see today that the strength of international law and humanitarian law no longer seems binding, replaced by the presumed right to overpower others.

Leo himself wrote that: "the care of the universal Church should converge towards Peter's one seat, and nothing anywhere should be separated from its Head" (Letter 14.12).