Nine months ago, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost sat down for an interview at a parish in the Chicago area before celebrating Mass. Now that he is Pope Leo XIV, his words on the National Eucharistic Congress, Pope Francis, synodality, and more have taken on extra significance.
Here are some highlights from the videotaped interview at St. Jude Church in New Lenox, Illinois.
On the National Eucharistic Congress:
“I was not there, I watched it on the internet, but it was a magnificent experience.”
“There are dynamic, life-giving experiences that do fill us with hope, and we have to learn to share that message with others — it depends on all of us.”
“There’s a lot of good things going on, a lot of hope-filled things that each and every one of us can take part in.”
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