A man can be the Supreme Pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, and still feel like a little boy in the cockpit of a jet.

✨ Happy Solemnity of Corpus Christi! ✨ On this great Feast of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, our Vocations Director Fr. Eoin Patten tells us Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. #corpuschristi #heisthere #priestsforpaisley #pray

¡Esta es la juventud del Papa! Enormous crowds for Pope Leo XIV, as a hundreds of thousands of young people fill Plaza de Lima in Madrid. Many more young people turn out for the Pope, than for Bad Bunny, who is performing tonight in Madrid.

Right now over 500,000 young people in Madrid join Pope Leo XIV on their knees adoring Our Blessed Lord truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

Pope Leo blesses half a million young Catholics with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Madrid. Video: Vatican Media

Tonight’s prayer vigil with Pope Leo XIV turned Madrid into a giant chapel under the open sky: 600,000 young people, absolute silence, and Jesus in the Eucharist at the center.  Only Jesus can draw 600,000 people to their knees in silence with the Pope in Spain.

Pope Leo XIV spoke with hundreds of thousands of young people in Madrid on the first day of his six-day apostolic visit to Spain. ewtnnews.com/vatican/in-spai…

They said Catholic faith is dead in Europe Meanwhile here is half a million people attending Eucharistic adoration led by Pope Leo in Spain

🚨 Pope Leo has CONDEMNED the availability of smartphones to small children, which often leads to addiction and to the accessing of harmful materials: 'Having a personal mobile device at too early an age and using it without adult supervision can exacerbate young people’s vulnerabilities, foster addiction and expose them to isolation, bullying and cyberbullying, as well as to pressures to share intimate images or sensitive information' Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV has decried a rejection of Christian values in European institutions, leading to what he characterized as “a time of drastic sterility” and “purportedly family-friendly policies” that also support abortion. ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-de…

It strikes me that Magnifica Humanitas will be a worthy successor to Rerum Novarum. So far, one of the key takeaways is how dangerous it is that much of the technology is concentrated in ways that transcend national boundaries and government control.

Pope Leo XIV’s address in English at the publication of his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Do listen to all of it. It is very good.

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical is set to be released on May 15th This is the same date that Pope Leo XIII's famous Rerum Novarum was released in 1891 [KNA News Agency]

Pope Leo XIV anointing the hands of newly ordained Priests, these hands that will offer the Eucharistic Sacrifice to Almighty God.

The laying of hands at Priestly Ordinations with Pope Leo XIV this morning in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The Litany of the Saints at today’s Priestly Ordinations in St. Peter’s Basilica. Let us keep these men in our prayers.

Joseph Ratzinger was elected as pope on 19th April 2005 A day before his election, he delivered one of his most famous and prophetic speeches Coining the phrase 'Dictatorship of Relativism', he predicted how the West would see relativists imposing their will on those who had traditional beliefs It is a compelling and very powerful read, especially in light of recent events in the West: 'How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true. Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth. We must develop this adult faith; we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith. And it is this faith - only faith - that creates unity and is fulfilled in love. On this theme, St Paul offers us as a fundamental formula for Christian existence some beautiful words, in contrast to the continual vicissitudes of those who, like children, are tossed about by the waves: make truth in love. Truth and love coincide in Christ. To the extent that we draw close to Christ, in our own lives too, truth and love are blended. Love without truth would be blind; truth without love would be like "a clanging cymbal" (I Cor 13: 1). Let us now look at the Gospel, from whose riches I would like to draw only two small observations. The Lord addresses these wonderful words to us: "I no longer speak of you as slaves.... Instead, I call you friends" (Jn 15: 15). We so often feel, and it is true, that we are only useless servants (cf. Lk 17: 10). Yet, in spite of this, the Lord calls us friends, he makes us his friends, he gives us his friendship. The Lord gives friendship a dual definition. There are no secrets between friends: Christ tells us all that he hears from the Father; he gives us his full trust and with trust, also knowledge. He reveals his face and his heart to us. He shows us the tenderness he feels for us, his passionate love that goes even as far as the folly of the Cross. He entrusts himself to us, he gives us the power to speak in his name: "this is my body...", "I forgive you...". He entrusts his Body, the Church, to us'