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81-year-old Father Diego Semeraro, from the southern Italian region of Puglia, felt faint due to the strong heat in Rome on the day of the audience.

The pope will lead the prayer from the Lourdes grotto in the Vatican Gardens at 7 p.m. local time on Saturday, with participating shrines joining via livestream.

The pope said authentic renewal of the liturgy is acceptable and encouraged when the Church first engages in careful theological and pastoral study.

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given May 27 in St. Peter’s Square. Catechesis. The Documents of the Second Vatican …

Pope Leo XIV again called on the international community to assist the people of Gaza, saying that human rights must be respected “for everyone.”

Pope Leo XIV questioned the Catholic teaching of just war theory in modern warfare and wrote about slavery in an unprecedented way.

Pope Leo called for measures to ensure an economy that “favors human dignity,” first and foremost through transparency and accountability.

In his new encyclical on artificial intelligence, Pope Leo XIV took aim at the normalization of war, made more dangerous by a digital revolution.

Speaking after the promulgation of “Magnifica Humanitas,” the pope explained that he had consulted with scientists, engineers, policymakers, educators and parents as he was working on the encyclical.

A May 25 presentation coincided with the Vatican’s release of Pope Leo’s first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.