When asked whether he talked to President Donald Trump and other leaders involved in conversations, the Pope replied that with some of them he was in constant contact.
Leon XIV confessed that the first 100 days of his pontificate were “God's blessing.”
Before leaving Castel Gandolfo, he said goodbye to the town authorities and the faithful who gathered in front of the papal residence to greet him.
On the last day of a short stay at Rome, Pope Leon XIV went before noon to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace on Mount Mentorella. It is located in the Predi -Senior Mountains, east of Rome. In a place visited by John Paul II, Leon XIV met with Polish Fathers of the Resurrectionist who look after the Sanctuary. The Fathers of the Resurrectionist are members of the Congregation of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the International Men's Religious Community, founded in 1836.
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The rector of the Sanctuary Father Adam Dźwigoń told the Vatican media that the Pope prayed for world peace there.
The monks showed Leon XIV around the sanctuary. The Pope visited, among others Papal peace, in which both John Paul II and Benedict XVI rested. The Pope then ate dinner with the resurrents.
Leon XIV after his stay in Castel Gandolfo, where he also rested in July, he returned to his current apartment in Palazzo del Sant'uffizio close to the Basilica of Saint Peter, in which he has lived since 2023, when he was appointed by Pope Francis with a prefect of dykaster for bishops. He remained in this apartment after election to the conclave in May this year.
The daily “La Repubblica” said that at the end of September it is planned to end the renovation in the papal apartment at the Apostolic Palace, to which Leon XIV is to move.
The apartment stood empty for over 12 years, because Francis lived in the House of Marta in the Vatican.
According to the Roman newspaper, renovation works on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace have been prolonged, because hydraulic works and removal of moisture spots that arose in recent years were also necessary.
