Pope Leo XIV's Current Events Thread


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Pope Leo met yesterday Sebastian Tynkkynen, a Finnish member of the European Parliament. Tynkkynen tells about the meeting among other things:
A Swiss Guard came to welcome us and took our group to the Sala Clementina room. The large doors opened and the Pope entered the room at exactly 9:00 in the morning. A deep silence fell in the room and the Pope walked to his seat. (...)
After the Pope’s greeting, we each had a short conversation with him alone. I didn’t expect this, but I thought the Pope would only take a few questions from our entire delegation. I can admit that I was a little nervous. I will never forget that moment. And I still wonder how this was possible. And also that the Pope spent a whole hour with us.
 
Pope Leo mentioned the suffering of the Palestinian people of Gaza in his first Christmas message to the world.

 
The Pope attended a concert at the Sistine Chapel on January 3rd
 
Pope Leo XIV closed the Holy Door at St Peter's in the Vatican to end Jubilee year

Pope Leo held his first weekly audience of 2026 at the Paul VI Hall .
 
Pope Leo performed a baptism yesterday in the Sistine Chapel of the child of a Vatican employee.
This is a tradition started by Pope St. John Paul II
 
Today, January 12, Pope Leo received Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)




and Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner:



 
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