Overview

• In St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led a Rosary vigil dedicated to praying for the gift of peace, drawing more than 30,000 pilgrims from Marian shrines, movements, confraternities and prayer groups.
• He urged leaders to “lay down your sword,” calling for disarmament and insisting that “peace is unarmed and disarming,” favoring dialogue over force.
• Celebrating the Jubilee Mass for Marian Spirituality, he stated that Marian devotion “has Jesus as its center” and serves the Gospel by shaping faithful discipleship.
• He linked Marian fidelity to encounter and justice, pressing believers to fill the hungry with good things, lift up the lowly and trust in God’s mercy.
• He warned that some forms of worship can numb hearts and be exploited to label those who are different, often the poor, as enemies to be avoided.