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August 7, 2025

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Reading Scripture

August 7, 2025

Getting lost in a book, a story, a poem can become a moment of transfiguration for us. How much more so, if the author of that book is God?

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Pope Leo XIV gives a thumbs-up as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Aug. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo XIV’s General Audience

August 7, 2025
This is the text of the catechesis and appeal from Pope Leo XIV’s Aug. 6, 2025 general audience given in St. Peter’s Square.
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