US EditionOn Guadalupe Feast, Pope Prays for End to Global, Church Division
Pope Leo XIV prayed for healing divisions in the Church and world, asking Mary to support youth and clergy amid ongoing conflicts, during the Guadalupe feast Mass.
- On Dec. 12, 2025, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Peter’s Basilica, with hundreds of priests concelebrating and a homily delivered in Spanish.
- According to tradition, Mary appeared at Tepeyac in 1531 to St. Juan Diego, Indigenous Mexican, imprinting her image on his cloak and inspiring the Our Lady of Guadalupe devotion deeply rooted across Latin America.
- Pope Leo XIV asked Mary to accompany young people, protect clergy and consecrated men and women, and strengthen families so parents educate children `with tenderness and firmness`.
- He asked Mary to intercede to restore unity in a world marked by conflict and a Church with divisions, imploring her to bring back those who have distanced themselves from the Church.
- Having spent nearly 30 years in Peru, Pope Leo XIV delivered his homily in flawless Spanish and drew on Gospel readings like the annunciation and visitation to highlight Mary’s transformative joy.
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On Guadalupe feast, pope prays for end to global, church division
ROME – Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to restore unity in a world marred by conflict, and in a church stained by division. Speaking to attendees of his Mass for the Dec. 12 feast day, the pope asked that Mary would “teach the nations that want to be your children not to divide the world into irreconcilable sides, not to allow hatred to mark their history nor li…
Pope Leo prays for nations to reject division in first Guadalupe homily
In his first homily for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, delivered Dec. 12, Pope Leo invoked the Virgin Mary’s motherhood as a response to a fractured world, calling on nations to reject division, protect human dignity and exercise authority “as service and not as domination.”
On Guadalupe feast day, pope prays leaders shun lies, hatred, division, disrespect for life
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV prayed for Mary’s maternal intercession so that she would help nations avoid lies and hatred and instruct leaders to protect the dignity of all human life. He also prayed that families find strength, young people find meaning and people of faith seek greater communion because “within the church, Mother, your children cannot be divided.” In his homily at Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s …
«It accompanies, Mother, the younger ones to obtain from Christ the strength to choose the good and the courage to stand firm in the faith, even if the world pushes them in another direction. (...) It removes from them the threats of crime, addictions and the danger of a life without meaning», said the pontiff in his homily, pronounced in Spanish. This was the first 12 December in which Leon XIV presided over this Mass in honor of the Virgin of …
During a prayer offered to Our Lady of Guadalupe on her liturgical commemoration, Leo XIV prayed in St. Peter's Basilica for young people – for the choice of good and the courage to accept God's plans.
In his homily during Mass celebrated on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12, Pope Leo XIV offered prayerful supplications to the Mother of God, including for himself as the Successor of Peter. He prayed, among other things, with the words of John Paul II: "Mother of the 'true God for whom we live,' come to the aid of the Successor of Peter, that he may be strengthened in the... The article "The Pope prays to Mary for help for the S…
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