Pope Leo Calls on Youth to ‘Accept the Invitation of the Church and Christ the Lord’ in First Regina Caeli…

“To young people I say: Do not be afraid! Accept the invitation of the Church and Christ the Lord!” declared Pope Leo XIV to thunderous applause during his first Regina Caeli address, as an extraordinary crowd of jubilant pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. The spontaneous call to young people from the first U.S.-born pope echoed the famous words of St. John Paul II in 1978.

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“To young people I say: Do not be afraid! Accept the invitation of the Church and Christ the Lord!” declared Pope Leo XIV to thunderous applause during his first Regina Caeli address, as an extraordinary crowd of jubilant pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. The spontaneous call to young people from the first U.S.-born pope echoed the famous words of St. John Paul II in 1978.