"Your work must become a personal prayer, must become a real conversation with Our Father in heaven.” Saint Josemaría
"Your work must become a personal prayer, must become a real conversation with Our Father in heaven.”
Nearly 3,000 students are gathering in Rome from 13 to 20 April to celebrate Holy Week during the Jubilee Year. Now in its 57th edition, UNIV also offers a series of cultural events reflecting on this year’s theme: “Citizens of Our World.”
On 14 February, Pope Francis was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome due to a polymicrobial infection of the respiratory tract. The Holy See Press Office publishes updates on the Pope's health twice a day.
With deep gratitude and joy, we share the letter Pope Francis sent to the young participants of UNIV 2025. We share it with everyone as an invitation to join in prayer for the Holy Father, as he asks us to do in the letter.
"Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences."
On the anniversary of Pope Francis’ election (13 March), here is an index of all the free ebooks of his audiences available on this website, with links.
The Holy Father shares what it means to journey together in hope this Lent. “All of us are pilgrims in this life; each of us is invited to stop and ask how our lives reflect this fact. Am I really on a journey, or am I standing still, not moving, either immobilized by fear and hopelessness or reluctant to move out of my comfort zone?”
Dilexit nos (“He loved us”)
Fratelli tutti (“All of us, brothers and sisters”)
Laudato si’: On Care for Our Common Home
Lumen fidei (“The light of faith”)