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Pope: Young people, embrace Christ and your call to holiness

August 15, 2026 · 1 min read

Pope Leo XIV reminds young people participating in the Third National Youth Day taking place this weekend in Monterrey, Mexico, that the purpose of our lives is to unite ourselves to Jesus and thus, by sharing in His life, attain the holiness to which we are called.

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Katerina Prifti

Pope Leo XIV is right, the call to holiness is not just for priests. I say this as a teacher who sees every day how my girls at school struggle with the pressures of the world. A simple question: how can we explain this to our children without giving them dry sermons?

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