Jesus Christ

The human heart finds its home in God and in communion with others, said two Catholic clergy from embattled eastern Ukraine at the annual New York Encounter.

A federal judge cited two Gospel verses in his order releasing five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from a Texas family detention center.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Feb. 1 to those gathered in St. Peter’s Squarer, reflecting on Jesus Christ’s Beatitudes.

“I firmly believe in the power of Jesus’s presence — his flesh, his blood, his soul — in the Eucharist. Marcos desperately needed it” at that moment.

The staff unites “the mission of proclaiming the mystery of love expressed by Christ on the cross with his glorious manifestation in the resurrection.”

“Are we willing to be the one who turns back, the one who gives thanks, and in doing so draws near to Christ and to each other?”

In many ways, the church is always a “construction site” where God is constantly shaping its members who must dig deep, but work patiently, Pope Leo XIV said.

What Thomas á Kempis “wrote was not just here’s a holy thought or here’s a pious practice, but here’s how we become like Jesus.”

God also exhorts his priests to “entrust ourselves, along a daily path of conversion, to the transforming power of his Spirit who dwells in our hearts,” Pope Leo said.

When a priest has experienced the joy of truly believing in Jesus Christ and embracing him as a friend, it shows, Pope Leo XIV told priests.