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Pope Leo XIV•Vatican Diplomacy

What did Colombia’s president ask the Pope and what does it have to do with Trump and the USA? Here is the answer

President Petro did not shy away from bold appeals. He framed climate change not as an abstract threat but as the existential pivot around which global politics—and humanity’s survival—must now turn. “If the U.S. government continues to treat migration as the core issue,” he told the Pope, “it will end up sacrificing its own children.”

Cardinals and Bishops•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

Leader of Ukrainian Catholics visits the Pope and invites him to Ukraine: “his visit would contribute to stop the war”

“The Vatican’s involvement has already made a difference,” he said, noting that treatment improves when prisoners are known to be on the Holy See’s radar. He asked Pope Leo XIV to continue the work begun under Pope Francis, who had engaged discreetly in prisoner exchanges and negotiations behind the scenes.

Jubilee 2025•Pope Leo XIV

100,000 people arrive in Rome for Jubilee of Confraternities and Mass at the beginning of Leo XIV’s Pontificate

The Jubilee will conclude with a profound moment of ecclesial unity: the participation of all Confraternity members, in their full ceremonial garb, at the Papal Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square. The liturgy marks not only the end of the Jubilee but also the official beginning of Pope Leo XIV’s ministry as Bishop of Rome.