{"id":1,"date":"2025-10-07T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:38:01","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-calls-for-christian-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/pope-leo-xiv-calls-for-christian-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV Calls for Christian Mercy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City, 27 October, 2025 \u2014 At the Sunday Angelus in St Peter\u2019s Square, Pope Leo XIV urged the faithful not to fear admitting their mistakes, using the Gospel parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector to illustrate the value of humility and sincerity before God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65427102e49d830926f680293a4536697aed2582-1024x576.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65427102e49d830926f680293a4536697aed2582-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65427102e49d830926f680293a4536697aed2582-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65427102e49d830926f680293a4536697aed2582-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65427102e49d830926f680293a4536697aed2582.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"969\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vatican City, 27 October, 2025 \u2014 At the Sunday Angelus in St Peter\u2019s Square, Pope Leo XIV urged the faithful not to fear admitting their mistakes, using the Gospel parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector to illustrate the value of humility and sincerity before God.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo acknowledge faults, take responsibility and entrust themselves to God\u2019s mercy \u2014 for only such humility opens the door to healing and transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pope Leo XIV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pope contrasted the Pharisee, who stands proudly in the temple citing his merits, with the tax collector, who humbly confesses his sin: \u201cGod, be merciful to me, a sinner.\u201d He said that while the Pharisee\u2019s prayer is \u201cpoor in love,\u201d centred on \u201cdebts and credits\u201d and devoid of mercy, the tax collector represents the path of honest self-examination and trust in God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo explained that the tax collector\u2019s courage to present himself honestly before God, despite fear and judgment, is the very reason he \u201cwent home justified\u201d. He warned that the Kingdom of God \u201cdoes not belong to the proud, but to the humble\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflects on the meaning of Christian mercy \u2014 a free embrace given without any preconditions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope Leo XIV Calls for Christian Mercy\u00a0 - Holy Family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cre8ivedge.net\/basilica\/pope-leo-xiv-calls-for-christian-mercy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Leo XIV Calls for Christian Mercy\u00a0 - 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