In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. He said that the Church is "the people of God who draw their existence from the body of Christ and who are themselves the body of Christ." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV resumed his catechesis on Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. He said that "the Church is at the same time an earthly community and the mystical body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual mystery, a reality present in history and a people journeying towards heaven." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. He turned to Lumen Gentium, the Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Reflecting on St. Paul's meditation on the Church as a "mystery." ...read more

At this crucial moment in the life of the Church and the world, it's worth refreshing our collective memory about the significance of Vatican II. ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and his reflection on Dei Verbum, the Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation. He spoke on the relationship between Scripture and the Church, saying that "In the ecclesial community, Scripture...finds the sphere in which to carry out its particular task and achieve its purpose: to make Christ known and to open dialogue with God." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his new cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and his reflection on Dei Verbum, the Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation. He said that "in every age, the Church is called to re-propose the Word of God in a language capable of being embodied in history and reaching hearts." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his new cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and his reflection on Dei Verbum, the Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation. He said that "The Word of God...is not fossilized, but rather it is a living and organic reality that develops and grows in Tradition. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, Tradition understands it in the richness of its truth and embodies it in the shifting coordinates of history." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his new cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council and his reflection on Dei Verbum, the Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation. He said that "in Christ, God has communicated himself to us and, at the same time, he has manifested to us our true identity as his children, created in the image of the Word." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV continued his new cycle of catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council. He reflected on Dei Verbum, the Council's Constitution on Divine Revelation, saying that "with the coming of the Son in human flesh, the Covenant opens up to its final purpose: in Jesus, God makes us sons and daughters, and calls us to become like Him." ...read more

In his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV turned to celebrating the 60th anniversary of Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Freedom, Nostra Aetate.  ...read more