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A spokesman for the Assisi basilica, invited churches around the world to ring their bells at the same time to commemorate the saint’s death.  

While every local Church has its own dignity and mission, the nuncio reminded the bishops that no local Church “is more or less Church than another.”

“Dear brothers and sisters who are sick, you are not a burden. You are the beating heart of our humanity and a precious treasure for the Church.”

Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France aimed to show that a joyful or serene rebirth is always possible even after tremendous tragedy or terrible suffering, he said.

A police officer lifted the girl into his arms as the pope passed in the popemobile along the Champs-Elysees before Mass at Place de la Concorde.

The meeting’s theme focused on developing a “multilateral and intergenerational approach” to prevent and address pandemics and public health emergencies.

The Canadian and Latin American-Caribbean messaging about synodality stressed the need to transform the Church by turning the concept into lived experience.

“In a special way, I ask you to pray for our attacker and for the grace of conversion for him,” Father Mantykiewicz said. “He needs this prayer most of all.”

French survivors of clergy sexual abuse who met with Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes said they were struck by the pontiff’s deep personal empathy and his frank acknowledgment of the …

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Sept. 27, 2026, at the Prairie of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. …