“A Church of the Poor” — Pope Leo XIV Will Share Mass and a Meal With 200 Vulnerable Romans at Castel Gandolfo

He reached the Alban Hills straight from Lampedusa, where he spent America’s 250th birthday among migrants at Europe’s southern door. From Ukraine’s president to a shelled church in Gaza to a homeless

Pope Leo XIV is surrounded by children in the pontifical gardens. Welcoming the most vulnerable — the young, the migrant, the poor — has become the through-line of his first year.

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass with roughly 200 poor and vulnerable residents of the Diocese of Rome this Saturday in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo — and when the liturgy en…