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5 days ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Promoting peace requires training people’s hearts and minds to be concerned about others and perceive the common good, Pope Leo XIV said. “Our children and young people need to be able to experience the culture of life, dialogue and mutual respect. Above all, they need the witness of men and women who embody a different and nonviolent way of living,” he said during an audience at the Vatican May 30.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

ROME (CNS) — Before he was Pope Leo XIV, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, created a commission to help women escape forced prostitution, said a trafficking survivor who worked with him. Silvia Teodolinda Vázquez, 52, told the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, she met Pope Leo when he created a diocesan commission on human migration and trafficking in persons in 2017.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

ROME (CNS) — God’s love, mercy and goodness lie at the foundation of every vocation, including that of the pope, Pope Leo XIV said. “Let us ask the Lord for the grace to cultivate and spread his charity and to become true neighbors to one another,” he said, paraphrasing his predecessor, Pope Francis, in a homily at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls May 20.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Carol Glatz

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology — St. Francis of Assisi — died the day before Earth Day and about five weeks before the 10th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on care for creation. Dated May 24, the solemnity of Pentecost in 2015, the document, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” presented the core of his teachings on integral ecology, its principles and practical applications.

2 weeks ago | catholicphilly.com | Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV has named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. The cardinal succeeds Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who turned 80, the Vatican’s mandatory retirement age, April 20. The archbishop had served as grand chancellor since 2016. Cardinal Reina, as papal vicar for Rome, is automatically the grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, where the institute is based.