In this Jubilee Year of Hope, Christ, who is our hope, indeed calls all of us to come together, that we might be that true living example: the light of hope in the world today.’

The pope made a virtual appearance in his hometown of Chicago.

On June 14, the new American Pope Leo XIV delivered his first address to a U.S. audience via a pre-recorded video message from Chicago’s White Sox Stadium. The message, part of a packed celebration organized by the Archdiocese of Chicago,

"Humanity is greatly diminished whenever the unborn, or the undocumented, the unemployed, the unhealthy are excluded," Cardinal Blase Cupich said.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff, American Catholics are feeling excited about their new religious leader.

The Holy Father asked for the intercession of Our Lady, Queen of Peace before praying his first Angelus in the square in Latin and urging his listeners to pray for the end of conflicts in different parts of the world.