Category: Jubilee Year 2025
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JUBILEE OF BISHOPS – MEDITATION OF POPE LEO XIV ****
Altar of the Cathedra in Saint Peter’s BasilicaWednesday, 25 June 2025 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Peace be with you! Dear brothers, good morning and welcome! I deeply appreciate the effort all of you have made to come on pilgrimage to Rome, since I realize how pressing…
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Nicolas Steeves, SJ – John Henry Newman: Doctor of Fruitful Fidelity
Nicolas Steeves, SJ The proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV on November 1, 2025, during the Jubilee of Education was seen by many as an opportunity to reflect on him and his thought. Academic papers, blog posts and articles in journals and newspapers paid tribute…
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Austen Ivereigh – Something Wholly New ****
The real significance of an English king praying with the pope Austen Ivereigh It was a Buckingham Palace press briefing that framed the story of King Charles III’s meeting with Pope Leo XIV on October 23: “King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years.” This implied that before…
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Brett Beasley – John Henry Newman, Influencer ****
How the newest Doctor of the Church would see our post-truth age Brett Beasley When the news broke that John Henry Newman would be declared the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church, I was planning a new course around his work. I had decided to call it “The Ethics of Influence.” Its premise, as my students…
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Pope Leo XIV – PROCLAMATION OF ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AS “DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH” ****
HOMILY OF POPE LEO XIV FURTHER AND Pope Leo XIV declares St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church Ruth Gledhill Citing Pope Francis, he said, “We must work together to free humanity from the darkness of nihilism that surrounds it, which is perhaps the most dangerous disease of contemporary culture, since it threatens…
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Colleen Dulle – From Pope Francis to Pope Leo: The future of synodality
Colleen Dulle When Pope Leo XIV was elected on May 8, he surprised the world by using a word that was likely not recognizable to most of his global audience: synodal. “We want to be a synodal church, walking and always seeking peace, charity, closeness, especially to those who are suffering,” he said. To those…
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Francesca Merlo – Pope signs Apostolic Letter marking sixtieth anniversary of Gravissimum Educationis
Pope Leo XIV signs an Apostolic Letter to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Gravissimum Educationis before presiding over Holy Mass for the Jubilee of the World of Education. Francesca Merlo Joining students of Pontifical Universities on Monday, as part of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV signed an Apostolic Letter, written…
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HOMILY BY HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV – EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH STUDENTS FROM THE PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITIES
St. Peter’s Basilica – Monday, 27 October 2025 To gather in this place during the Jubilee Year is a gift that we must not take for granted. Above all, it is a gift because to go on a pilgrimage, to pass through the Holy Door, reminds us that life makes sense only when it is…
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Pope Leo dialogues with Synod teams and participants ****
Pope Leo XIV meets and dialogues with members of Synodal teams and participatory bodies here for their Jubilee pilgrimage from 24 to 26 October 2025. Pope Leo XIV welcomed some two thousand members of synodal teams and participatory bodies (presbyteral councils, pastoral councils, finance councils, among others) representing diocesan/eparchial, national, and Church realms from around…
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Math Professor Wrote a Wrong Equation on the Board to Test a Farmboy — But He Was a Genius
This is VERY long…. But in the Jubilee Year of HOPE …. there is a lot of wisdom here A humble farmboy walks into one of America’s most elite classrooms, wearing dusty boots and carrying nothing but a pencil and a worn notebook. The math professor writes a wrong equation on the board — not…
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Pope Francis is a hard act to follow. But Leo XIV is filling the role with remarkable ease. ****
Inside the new pope’s first 100 days Gerard O’Connell It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with remarkable ease in his first…
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Nathan Dufour Oglesby – Catholicism as Content ****
The Church wants to evangelise digital spaces, but can the Gospel really be heard there? Nathan Dufour Oglesby In a recent audio history of the Catholic Church, in a section on thirteenth-century reforms and innovations, Christopher Bellitto speculated that if Francis of Assisi were alive now, he would have used social media: “He’d have a…
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Pope Leo XIV – Holy Mass for the Jubilee of Youth (3 August 2025)
Greeting of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to Young People before Holy Mass Good morning! Happy Sunday! I hope that all of you rested a little bit. We will shortly begin the greatest celebration that Christ left us, his very presence in the Eucharist. God bless you all. May this be a truly memorable occasion…
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Jubilee of Young People – Holy Mass and Angelus, 3 August 2025, Pope Leo XIV
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ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY FISHER OP – RECENT JUBILEE HOMILIES
SFORZA CHAPEL, BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, 30 JULY 2025 Many years ago I saw a very beautiful image of The Virgin at Prayer in the Dominican church of St Clemente near the Colosseum—a wonderful church we will be visiting in the coming days. When I got back home, I discovered the same painting in the Art…
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LIVE from the Vatican | Welcome Mass – Jubilee of Youth | July 29, 2025
Live from St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, join us for the Welcome Mass of the Jubilee of Youth, presided over by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. Thousands of young people from around the world gather in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee of Hope 2025. Let us know where you are watching from and what…
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Pope Leo to seminarians: Be passionate about priestly life ****
Pope Leo XIV welcomes some 4000 seminarians and formators to the Vatican for their Jubilee, offering them a meditation on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the priestly life. By Christopher Wells Seminarians who have come to Rome for the Jubilee are not only pilgrims, but witnesses of hope, who “fuel the flame of hope…
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Dr David Ranson VG PP – Fifth Sunday of Lent – 6 April 2025 – Fifth Reflection on Hope in the Year of Jubilee – Becoming Agents of Hope
Through this season of Lent, we have been exploring the theme of Hope, the focus of our current Year of Jubilee. We have reflected on how hope arises from our needs, on how hope opens us to the future, how it is guaranteed by our faith in Christ Jesus and in his Resurrection, and how…