Vatican City, Oct 10, 2025 / 09:33 am

Pope Leo XIV met with participants in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in the Vatican on Friday, thanking them for their fidelity to Christ and their witness of faith in the “most remote corners of the earth.”

During the audience, the Holy Father said the Church and the world need men and women consecrated to Jesus to reveal God’s presence and his “great plan of peace and salvation” for humanity.

“Recalling what Pope Francis has already said to you, I too wish to declare that the Church needs you and all the diversity and richness of the forms of consecration and ministry that you represent,” he said Oct. 10 in the Paul VI Hall.

“With your vitality and the witness of a life where Christ is the center and the Lord, you can contribute to ‘awakening th

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