Resist Tyrants, Welcome Strangers, Reject War, Serve the Poor: Pope Leo’s Epiphany Mandate

After closing the Jubilee Holy Door, Leo XIV urged the faithful to resist the “flattery and seduction” of worldly power, welcome the stranger, and set out together toward a more just future.

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At a packed St. Peter’s Basilica on Epiphany, Pope Leo XIV delivered a stirring homily that closed the Jubilee of Hope with both solemnity and fire. In front of tens of thousand…