Vietnamese Catholics from California meet with Pope
August 28, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo met on August 27 with over 160 members of the Vietnamese Catholic community in San Jose, California. The Vietnamese Catholics made a pilgrimage commemorating the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the United States, which followed the Communist North Vietnam’s conquest of South Vietnam in April 1975.
There are “over 14,000 Vietnamese in this community, which represents 14% of the city’s total population,” said Father Justin Le, diocesan vicar of Vietnamese ministry. “Our pilgrimage to Rome is intended as a profound act of thanksgiving to God for protecting and assisting our people fleeing the ravages of war and granting them the grace to rise from the ashes.”
“Today,” he added, “we brought the Pope a gift of a copy of the statue of Our Lady of La Vang, patroness of Vietnam.”
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