Vatican City, Oct 27, 2025 / 14:53 pm

Pope Leo XIV urged university students on Monday to feed their “hunger for truth and meaning,” lamenting that modern education often loses sight of the “big picture.”

“Today we have become experts in the smallest details of reality, but we have lost the capacity of seeing the big picture again, a vision that holds things together through a greater and deeper meaning,” Pope Leo XIV said. “Christian experience, on the other hand, wants to teach us to look at life and reality with a unified gaze.”

The pope presided over a Mass for students from Rome’s pontifical universities on Oct. 27, marking both the start of the academic year and the opening day of the Jubilee of the World of Education , a weeklong celebration that runs through Nov. 1 as part of

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