The world needs Christ's light...

 "Peace be with all of you." 

Pope Leo XIV first public statement 
8 May 2025

"The world needs Christ’s light. 
Humanity needs Him 

to be the bridge so that 

God and His love can reach us.”

Pope Leo XIV

Painting:  Christ the Savior with the Eucharist - Juan de Jaunes

Episcopal motto:
In the one Christ we are one.
In illo uno unum

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Prayer for the New Pope

O God, who in your providential design willed that your Church be built upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other Apostles, look with favor, we pray, on Leo our Pope and grant that he, whom you have made Peter’s successor, may be for your people a visible source and foundation of unity in faith and of communion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

(Prayer from the Collect of the Mass for the Pope -- The Roman Missal, Third Edition)