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The pope gave his reflections at St. Peter’s Basilica Saturday evening.

A Vatican spokesman described the ambitious trip as “one of the longest stretches of time that the pope has been outside the Vatican.”

Pope Leo XIV met Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, praising sport as a path to humility, resilience and peace.

Pope Leo XIV will visit four countries on the continent of Africa April 13-23.

“Only by returning to negotiations can the war be brought to an end,” he said in remarks in Italian following his April 8 general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Apr. 8, Wednesday in the Octave of Easter, in St. Peter’s Square. The …

Speaking to journalists at Castel Gandolfo April 7, and without naming Trump, Pope Leo called the president’s threat “truly unacceptable.”

Pope Leo emphasized the importance of the Gospel’s reach to “those oppressed by the evil that corrupts history and confuses consciences.”

This power “is God himself for he is Love who creates and generates, Love who is faithful to the end and Love who forgives and redeems.”

“Let us abandon every desire for conflict …  and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference “