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Find room in your heart for everyone, pope tells new bishops
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In Short: Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of 147 new bishops from five continents, emphasizing the importance of bishops loving and serving their people.
Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of 147 new bishops from five continents, emphasizing the importance of bishops loving and serving their people. 'To speak about him, we need to be with him; to lead his people, we must allow ourselves, every day, to be led by him,' he explained, according to Ewtnnews.
The Holy Father stressed that bishops must have hearts large enough to make room for everyone, carrying their children within them and presenting them each day to the Lord in prayer. 'Love the people that the Lord has entrusted to you' and boldly bring the Good News of salvation to everyone, he told the bishops, according to OSV News.
Pope Leo XIV also highlighted the importance of bishops being disciples first, laying down their lives for their people, as Jesus did. 'Our ministry springs from there. And when the heart remains close to Him, our service also becomes more serene, more free, and more fruitful,' he said, according to OSV News.
The Pope concluded by encouraging the bishops to take with them the certainty that the Lord, who has called them, is faithful. 'May people feel, through our presence, something of God's tenderness and fatherhood!' he said, according to OSV News.
What's confirmed
- Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of 147 new bishops from five continents, emphasizing the importance of bishops loving and serving their people. 'To speak about him, we need to be with him; to lead his people, we must allow ourselves, every day, to be led by him,' he explained, according to Ewtnnews.
- The Holy Father stressed that bishops must have hearts large enough to make room for everyone, carrying their children within them and presenting them each day to the Lord in prayer. 'Love the people that the Lord has entrusted to you' and boldly bring the Good News of salvation to everyone, he told the bishops, according to OSV News.
- Pope Leo XIV also highlighted the importance of bishops being disciples first, laying down their lives for their people, as Jesus did. 'Our ministry springs from there. And when the heart remains close to Him, our service also becomes more serene, more free, and more fruitful,' he said, according to OSV News.
- The Pope concluded by encouraging the bishops to take with them the certainty that the Lord, who has called them, is faithful. 'May people feel, through our presence, something of God's tenderness and fatherhood!' he said, according to OSV News.
What's still developing
- “Together you have listened, prayed, celebrated the Eucharist, and shared the hopes and dreams that you carry in your hearts for the Churches that the Lord has just entrusted to your pastoral care. All of this will help you remember something very simple and very precious: No bishop walks alone,” the pope said.
- Pope Leo XVI addresses a group of new bishops, participants in a formation course in Rome, during an audience on Sept. 10, 2026, in the Synod Hall of the Vatican. | Credit: Vatican Media “The bishop is a man who learns each day to love his people more deeply: to know the joys and sorrows of his people, to share in their dreams, and to rejoice at the growth of their communities,” he explained.
- “Within a complex and in some respects troubling landscape such as the present one, the Church celebrated last year the Jubilee of Hope. Was this because she lives apart from the world. On the contrary, it is because, through Christ crucified and risen, she is sent to proclaim the Gospel of salvation to everyone. And we bishops are the first recipients of this mandate,” he said.
- “We live in an era of rapid change,” the pope told them Sept. 10 in the Vatican Synod Hall.
- “Know that you are in my prayers, along with your churches: the priests, deacons, men and women in consecrated life, seminarians, families, young people, the elderly, the poor, those who suffer, and those who are still waiting to encounter the joy of the Gospel,” he said.
- “Everyone must find a place in the bishop’s heart,” he said, because Christ already has a place in his heart for everyone.