Pope Leo XIV to Open Academic Year at Lateran University: ‘This Is His Home,’ Rector Says

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Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, where the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences is located.

The rector remarked that all the popes of the modern era have visited the Lateran University, but Leo XIV’s presence at the opening of the academic year is a first.