US EditionPope Leo XIV Gets Rock Star’s Welcome at Catholic Influencer Festival
ROME, JUL 29 – Pope Leo XIV called on Catholic social media influencers to foster genuine human encounters and warned against neglecting relationships amid AI and digital evangelization, citing 32 million participants.
- Pope Leo XIV received a rock star welcome at the Vatican’s festival of Catholic influencers in Rome during the 2025 Holy Year celebrations this week.
- The event followed a background of the Vatican’s weeklong Jubilee for young people, with pilgrims and influencers gathering for the Holy Year and digital missionaries celebration.
- Pope Leo urged influencers to maintain human relationships amidst the rise of digital ecosystems and artificial intelligence, warning against neglecting real encounters for clicks or followers.
- He emphasized that the goal goes beyond producing content; it involves fostering genuine connections between people, and he urged everyone to help maintain a culture centered on human values.
- The event highlighted the Church’s priority to address AI’s challenges and foster networks of truth and Christian humanism, suggesting ongoing engagement with digital mission work.
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Full text: Pope Leo XIV address to Catholic digital missionaries and influencers
(OSV News) — The following is the full text of the address to Catholic digital missionaries and influencers given by Pope Leo XIV July 29, 2025, at St. Peter ‘s Basilica. In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, peace be with you! Dear brothers and sisters, we have began with this greeting: peace be with you! How much we need peace in these times marked by hostility and war, which in turn calls us to give witness to the gre…
Pope Leo XIV met this Tuesday in the Basilica of St. Peter with hundreds of Catholic influencers, gathered in Rome for two days in the first days organized in the Vatican dedicated to the so-called digital missionaries, within the acts of the Jubilee. A thousand communicators from more than 40 countries, priests and lay people, participated, and after a concluding Mass the Pontiff addressed a few words to them in a brief address of greeting.
Pope Leo XIV received on Tuesday a welcome worthy of a rock star at the festival of Catholic influencers—priests, nuns and faithful who use their presence on social networks to preach and teach the faith—in the Vatican while urging them to make sure that human relations do not suffer from the expansion of digital ecosystems and artificial intelligence. The first American pope in history was surrounded by hundreds of influencers, with his mobile …
VIDEO - Pope Leo XIV took part in a mass in the presence of many Catholic influencers on 29 July. These "digital missionaries" were at the heart of the annual pilgrimage of the "Young Jubilee".
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