Being overwhelmed by our task as followers of Christ is the challenge we face every moment of every day.
Yet, it is with grace that we open our Selves to Raising Hope, and in encountering Peace. For our selves, our communities, for the world.
One of the early outcomes of our Common Home meetings in Our Lady’s Auchterarder is to ensure we remember and build Hope in all we do.
It will no doubt grow as we do in our Faith and Actions.
For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed.
Isaiah 54: 10
During his recent visit to the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Paris, Pope Leo XIV addressed the nations of the world and reflected on what it means to be Human. He commended all to uphold principles of the founding Charter of UNESCO, to bringing about trust, unity and peace.
The speech of the Pope can be read here or you can watch it by clicking on the image below.
KEY MESSAGE FROM THE POPE
“… Every people has its own precious part to play in the pursuit of that authentic human progress which peace alone can guarantee. This is not to embrace a naive optimism that ignores difficulties, but rather to persevere in the hope that the desired good is always attainable. Every child born into this world brings new hope. Every person who devotes his or her life to the pursuit of truth is performing an act of hope.
May UNESCO, for its part, bear witness to this hope by fostering understanding among nations through dialogue between their respective cultures… Education is the way to overcoming mutual distrust and that science can be at the service of every human being, sowing seeds today that will bear an abundant harvest in the future. This trust strengthens our hope in charity, in commitment to the good of our neighbour.
For if all of us are firmly committed to the grandeur of our common humanity, peace can finally flourish.”
25 September 2026, Paris.
Pope Leo XIV in Paris, 25 September
To 80 thousand young faithful, His Holiness thanked them for their courage, their presence and their faith. “You are the saints of France,” he said and answered questions from representative young people, encouraging them that …
The way to proclaim Christ
courageously yet respectfully is to
proclaim him as the Gospel of salvation,
as the word of truth and life.
The Gospel is good news for all, a liberating message,
and a guide for new life.
Click to hear the Pope’s responses and the rest of the occasion in Paris.
You share in this mission….
The Synodal Church: becoming better able to engage and bear witness to the joy of the Gospel.
Extraordinary Consistory, 26 June 2026, Vatican City
Pope Leo called the meeting of the College of Cardinals in Rome, 26-27 June 2026, following an earlier one in January. His opening address is featured on our Synodality page, where you can find the full text. To put context to the event, here’s what the Pope had to say:
At the Consistory last January, I expressed a simple wish: that these meetings might help us to learn ever more to “work together in the service of the Church” and to continue “a dialogue that assists me in serving the mission of the whole Church.” These were not merely introductory words. I continue to believe that this is one of the most important responsibilities entrusted to the College of Cardinals. We too, like the whole Church, learn as we walk forward. Communion is never a result that is achieved once and for all: it remains a daily conversion, which takes shape in prayer, and through concrete actions, relationships of trust, and a willingness to listen to one another.
How can we help our Churches today to proclaim the Gospel with greater fidelity, freedom, and credibility?
Mission is not merely one of the Church’s many tasks. It is her very reason for existing and thus, it also becomes the criterion that guides our discernment. When we learn to listen to one another, to share responsibilities, and to recognize the action of the Spirit in the various Churches, we are not merely improving the way we work: we are becoming a Church that is better able to engage with the men and women of our time and to bear witness to them of the joy of the Gospel.
LENT 2026
Pope Leo’s Message for Lent
Click on the Message to read its full content.
ADVENT 2025
As we wait in attentiveness and with patience for the Birth and the fulfilment of Jesus, we pray for continued discernment of our call to Act Justly, Love Tenderly and Walk Humbly with the Lord, in step with Creation.
30 November 2025
As we enter into the season of Advent and prepare our hearts and minds to meet the Christ in the Baby Jesus, we attentively reflect on our Call to Act and Build our relationship with God, with Others and with Creation.
Friday 21 November 2025
Pope Leo XIV makes his first digital visit
to the youth of the USA,
for their National Youth Conference.
“You are not only the future of the Church, you are the present.”
It is a unique opportunity for youth of the English-speaking world, in fact for the adults in their lives too, to hear the Holy Father answer the questions that are important to how to view contemporary life and the future it leads to.
Click on the screenshot below to open the video link.
“Friendship with Jesus is at the heart of what it means to be a Christian.”
The Holy Father invited his young audience to reflect on these questions:
What can I offer the Church for the future?
How can I help others come to know Christ?
How can I build peace and friendship around me?
“I believe your YES will strengthen the Church now and in the years to come.”
Hope and
Determination
must be renewed
As stewards of God’s creation, we are called to act, to protect the gift He entrusted to us.
Pope Leo’s message to the Particular Churches of the Global South, gathered at COP30 at the weekend, continues:
“The creation is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat. One in three people live in great vulnerability because of these climate changes. To them, climate change is not a distant threat, and to ignore these people is to deny our shared humanity.
There is still time to keep the rise in global temperature below 1.5°C, but the window is closing.”
The full text is here.
Click on the Vatican News screenshot above to view the video.
13 NOVEMBER 2025
UPDATE FROM BRAZIL
RAISING HOPE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE AT COP30
Lorna Gold, Executive Director of Laudato Si’ Movement, spoke to Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO and Founder of We Don’t Have Time. She introduced the latest news from the Movement and the introduction of People Determined Contributions (PDCs) to balance the commitment to the COP process declared in National DCs.
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“Climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. At the global level, it is a complex system linked to many of the essential conditions for human life.”
(Laudato Si’, 23)
In Pope Leo’s message delivered by Cardinal Parolin to the UN’s COP30 in Brazil this week, the Holy Father said
“In the midst of a world that is in flames, as a result of both global warming and armed conflicts,” this Conference should become a sign of hope, through the respect shown to the views of others in the joint endeavour to search for common language and consensus, while putting aside selfish interests, bearing in mind the responsibility for one another and for future generations.”
He sent these prayers for the success of this “joint endeavour” of nations:
May all the participants in this COP30, as well as those actively following its work, be inspired to embrace with courage this ecological conversion in thought and actions, bearing in mind the human face of the climate crisis.
May this ecological conversion inspire the development of a new human-centred international financial architecture that ensures all countries, especially the poorest and those most vulnerable to climate disasters, can reach their full potential and see the dignity of their citizens respected. This architecture should take into account also the link between ecological debt and foreign debt.
May an education in integral ecology be promoted that explains why decisions at the personal, family, community and political levels shape our common future, while raising awareness of the climate crisis and encouraging mindsets and lifestyles to better respect creation and safeguard the dignity of the person and the inviolability of human life.
May all the participants in this COP30 commit themselves to protecting and caring for the creation entrusted to us by God in order to build a peaceful world.
VATICAN CITY STATE’S
NATIONAL DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS
(Climate actions plans countries promised to provide under the Paris agreement
Submitted in September 2025
Environmental justice – implicitly proclaimed by the prophets – can no longer be regarded as an abstract concept or a distant goal. It is an urgent need that involves much more than simply protecting the environment.
For it is a matter of justice – social, economic and human. For believers it is also a duty born of faith, since the universe reflects the face of Jesus Christ, in whom all things were created and redeemed.
In a world where the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters are the first to suffer the devastating effects of climate change, deforestation and pollution, care for creation becomes an expression of our faith and humanity.
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Read below for the full submission document. Click on the document, hold and slide up to see Page 2 .
VATICAN NDC 2035_September 2025
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Click above to see the final day of the conference on 3 October 2025