600 children meet with Pope Leo
July 04, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Some 600 children—half from Ukraine, and half from a Vatican summer camp—met with Pope Leo XIV in Paul VI Audience Hall on July 3.
In his conversation with the children, Pope Leo recalled attending Mass as a child; there, he encountered “the best friend of all: Jesus.”
“It is important to build bridges, to create friendship,” the Pope told the children. “Do not enter into war or conflict ... Jesus calls us all to be friends.”
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