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Jubilee 2025

Pope Leo XIV greets fourth grader Augie Wilk, who was elected "Pope Augustine" in a mock conclave at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in Chicago, during the pope’s weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2025. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago looks on. The students’ reenactment May 6 of a papal election went viral days before Pope Leo’s own election May 8. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Jesus wants to be close, rekindle hope, on life's journey, pope says

October 09, 2025

Pilgrims, including religious sisters, priests and laypeople who serve as missionaries around the world, recite the rosary in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of the Missions. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Mission, migrants make church 'catholic,' cardinal says

October 06, 2025

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily as he celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Proclaiming the Gospel includes welcoming migrants, pope says at Jubilee

October 06, 2025

Pope Leo XIV gets a hug as he rides in the popemobile before his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

God never gives up on his children, even when they fail, pope says

October 01, 2025

Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing to members of a pilgrimage organized by the U.S. bishops' Committee for Evangelization and Catechesis for the Jubilee of Catechists at the Vatican Sept. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

US pilgrims at Jubilee of Catechists have private audience with pope

September 30, 2025

Tarboro teens pilgrimage to Jubilee of Youth in Rome

Tarboro group makes pilgrimage to Jubilee of Youth

September 26, 2025

People shelter under umbrellas as rain falls near the end of Pope Leo XIV's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

God's love can reach anyone, even at 'rock bottom,' pope says

September 25, 2025

Pope Leo XIV leads an audience for participants in the Jubilee of Justice, which brought thousands of judges, lawyers, court officials, canon lawyers and law professors from about 100 countries to St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

True justice promotes dignity, equality, forgiveness, pope tells judges

September 22, 2025

Msgr. Laurence Spiteri, a judge on the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, holds a public conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. at a Jubilee of Justice event in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome Sept. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

US Supreme Court justice speaks at Vatican Jubilee of Justice

September 22, 2025

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily during a prayer vigil as part of the Jubilee of Consolation in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sept. 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope urges church to listen to sorrows of abuse victims, walk together

September 16, 2025