Overview
- León XIV presided over the Jubilee of the Poor Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for thousands of needy pilgrims, with many more following from the square.
- He warned that there can be no peace without justice and appealed to heads of state to listen to the poorest.
- His homily framed poverty as material, moral and spiritual, identifying loneliness as a common thread and urging a culture of attention.
- After the Angelus, he shared lunch in the Paul VI Hall with about 1,300 people, including roughly fifty transgender Latin American women invited via the papal almoner.
- He said he has delivered the apostolic exhortation “Dilexi te,” completing a text begun by Pope Francis, and on Friday opened a second medical center for the homeless under Bernini’s colonnade.