Pope Leo XIV greets religious sisters in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the conclusion of his weekly general audience at the Vatican, August 13, 2025. In a video message sent August 12, 2026, to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Orlando, Florida, Pope Leo encouraged sisters to foster vocations to religious life in the United States. Photo: CNS / Lola Gomez. Pope Leo XIV highlighted religious women’s and men’s work making “the mission and mystery of the Church visible in our world.” “All Christians are called to be builders of Christ’s communion, formed in a synodal Church in which everyone cooperates in the same mission according to their own charism and ministry,” he said during the Leadership…
