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Pope emphasizes importance of integrating migrants, calls on human traffickers to repent (CWN)

In a meeting with members of organizations that minister to migrants on the Canary Islands, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the importance of integrating migrants into their new societies and called on human traffickers to repent (video).

'It is in giving of ourselves that we truly live,' Pope preaches at final Mass in Spain (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and preached that “it is in giving of ourselves that we truly live” (video).

Pope, in message, calls on the world's priests to be holy (CWN)

In a message for the Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, which takes place each year on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Leo XIV addressed the world’s priests with the “words that God spoke to the people of Israel: ‘Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy’“ (Lev 19:2; cf. 1 Pt 1:16).

'God's love knows no borders,' Pope tell migrants in Canary Islands (CWN)

On June 12, the final day of his apostolic journey to Spain, Pope Leo XIV departed from Gran Canaria (video) and arrived in Tenerife (video), the largest of the Canary Islands. There, he met with migrants at a migrant reception center in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (video).

6 Lessons From St. Thérèse’s ‘Little Way’

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Jun. 13 Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Memorial

In the midst of the World War II, Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession "peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue" (Decree of May 4, 1944).

PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Finishes Trip to Spain With Mass, Meetings in Canary Islands

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