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“Dear brothers and sisters, our faith in Christ tells us that our bond with the faithful departed is not severed, but transformed,” Pope Leo said.

During a papal audience with 6,000 fans, alumni and athletes the day before game day, Pope Leo dribbled a golden basketball in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

The day after returning from South America, Pope Leo will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica marking the 400th anniversary of the basilica’s dedication.

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo had concelebrated a Mass in the hospital chapel on the 10th floor Oct. 14, the day after his surgery.

Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 in his Sunday Angelus address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.”

The cardinal is one of more than 70 Nigerian bishops who are meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in March for their ad limina visit. 

A two-day academic conference “Artificial Intelligence: A Tool for Virtue?” was held March 5–6 at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

The faithful should turn off all devices during certain moments of the day in order to create “space for silence,” prayer, listening and the sacraments.

“To give a true homily is to share faith,” and artificial intelligence “will never be able to share faith,” the pope added.

In recent years, it has become a little tradition in Rome to celebrate the anniversary of Cardinal Newman’s birthday with a Mass in the chapel where he celebrated his first …