On the feast of Algeria’s martyrs, a new pope heard the invitation to visit Africa … and said yes. Next week Pope Leo XIV lands in Algiers, becoming the first pontiff to set foot in the land of St. Augustine. “Assalamu alaikum,” he will tell a Muslim nation: “Peace be with you.” And Algeria just might answer back. During the…
ROME — The penitential journey of Lent for the Church in Rome began on Ash Wednesday with the traditional procession from the Benedictine abbey of Sant’Anselmo to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill, where Pope Leo XIV celebrated Holy Mass, blessed and imposed ashes, and delivered his homily for the opening of the holy season. Faithful from…
Pope Leo XIV has written a letter to the Master of the Order of Preachers, Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, OP, on the occasion of the General Chapter being held in Krakow. In it, he expresses his spiritual closeness, encourages the friars in their vocation as contemplative preachers, and offers his Apostolic Blessing to the entire Order.
ROME — Pope Leo XIV has released his first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi te” (“I have loved you”), a call to place the poor at the center of the Church’s life and mission. Signed on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the text insists that faith and love for the poor are inseparable. The Master of the Order of Preachers,…
