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Pope Leo XIV explained that love is “not the result of chance, but of a conscious choice” during his General Audience on Aug. 6, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Leave room for God, Pope Leo says at General Audience

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Japanese Emperor Naruhito, center, and Empress Masako bow in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing as they visit the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Thursday, June 19, 2025. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui is at left. (Credit: Kai Naito/Kyodo News via AP.)

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Young people participate in the Youth Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Italy, Aug. 2, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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A view of the antennas of Vatican Radio in Santa Maria di Galeria on April 11, 2001. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV arrives on the Popemobile as youth gathered in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday evening, July 29, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV surprises Catholic youth festival with unexpected popemobile salute

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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of the Environment in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on July 9, 2025. (Credit: Yara Nardi/Pool via AP.)

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Nuns stand next to copies of L’Osservatore Romano newspaper with headlines in Latin of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Friday, May 9, 2025, a day after he was elected as the first North American pope. (Credit: Francisco Seco/AP.)

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A view of the St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 20, 2024. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

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Cardinal Michael Czerny in Vatican press office in Rome, March 30, 2023. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ’s Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican, on Nov. 30, 2004. The recently-opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. (Credit: Plinio Lepri/AP.)

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Pope Leo giving the group of Egyptian pilgrims his blessing in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 8, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Archbishop Michael McGovern of Omaha is installed on May 8, 2025. (Credit: Archdiocese of Omaha.)

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