Vatican News

21/09/2025

Pope Leo presides at Sunday Mass in the Parish of Sant'Anna in the Vatican

21/09/2025

Gospel of the Day (Luke 16,1-13)

Jesus said to his disciples, "A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property.
He summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.'

The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.' He called in his master's debtors one by one. To the first he said, 'How much do you owe my master?'

He replied, 'One hundred measures of olive oil.' He said to him, 'Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.' Then to another he said, 'And you, how much do you owe?' He replied, 'One hundred kors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.' And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. "For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light."

I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?

No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

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21/09/2025

Innocent civilians In Myanmar's Rakhine state are suffering as the fighting continues, says the Bishop of Pyay, Peter Tin Wai.

As the bloodshed continues in Myanmar and civil war continues to cripple the country, Bishop Peter Tin Wai of Pyay in the Rakhine state decries the ...

20/09/2025

In a videomessage for this year's ALS ‘Walk for Life’, Pope Leo says that “the quality of human life is not dependent on achievement", but "on love".

In a videomessage for this year's ALS ‘Walk for Life’, Pope Leo says that “the quality of human life is not dependent on achievement", but "on love".

20/09/2025

According to Fr. Silas Bogati, calm has returned to Nepal following recent unrest, as schools reopen and confidence grows in the transitional government.

Following recent unrest, calm has returned to Nepal as schools reopen and confidence grows in the transitional government, according to Fr. Silas ...

20/09/2025

In Tucumán, Argentina, children are living their faith as Guardians of Creation, planting trees, mentoring peers, and learning to care for our planet through the Laudato Si’ initiative.”

In Tucumán, Argentina, children are living their faith as Guardians of Creation, planting trees, mentoring peers, and learning to care for our planet ...

20/09/2025

Pope Leo invites participants in the Jubilee of Justice to "always express to the fullest the exercise of justice in the service of the people, with eyes fixed on God".

Pope Leo XIV reflects on justice and its function in society at the Jubilee of Justice, inviting participants “to always express to the fullest the ...

20/09/2025

On Sunday, Pope Leo will celebrate Mass in the Vatican's parish of St Anne, which dates back to the 16th century and has been entrusted to the Augustinians since 1929.

The Holy See Press Office announces that the Pope will go to the ancient church located within Vatican City State to celebrate the 25th Sunday in ...

20/09/2025

Jubilee of Justice – Audience of Pope Leo XIV

20/09/2025

Gospel of the Day (Luke 8,4-15)

When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another journeying to Jesus, he spoke in a parable. A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up. Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew, it produced fruit a hundredfold."

After saying this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear." Then his disciples asked him what the meaning of this parable might be. He answered, "Knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been granted to you; but to the rest, they are made known through parables so that 'they may look but not see, and hear but not understand.' This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved. Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of trial. As for the seed that fell among thorns, they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along, they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they fail to produce mature fruit.

But as for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance."

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2025/09/20.html

20/09/2025

Pope Leo XIV addresses the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Rome, inviting them to walk alongside the people of God with "a pastoral ministry that is supportive, empathetic, discreet, non-judgmental, and able to welcome everyone.”

Pope Leo XIV addresses the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Rome during an assembly at the Basilica of St John Lateran, inviting the Church of ...

20/09/2025

The postulator for the cause of Peter To Rot, soon to be the first saint from Papua New Guineau, speaks to Vatican News about the saint's story.

Catholics in Papua New Guinea feel they are living a historic moment. This October, the Catholic Church will canonize Blessed Peter To Rot, making him ...