“Lift Our Gaze Toward Heaven” — Pope Leo XIV and His Predecessors’ Celebration of Space Travel

Fifty-seven years ago tonight, Apollo 11 left Psalm 8 in the Sea of Tranquility — a gift from Paul VI. Last July, Leo XIV prayed the same psalm with the man who brought it there.

Pope Leo XIV looks skyward as he greets pilgrims from the popemobile. At Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, the pope said beauty “helps us to see and to lift our gaze toward heaven.”

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