Pope Leo XIV received a senior liturgically and doctrinally conservative cardinal, and one of the last surviving Council Fathers, in a private audience on May 20, the day he delivered his latest catechesis on the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy at the weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square.
The Holy See Press Office bulletin listed Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze as the sole private audience granted by the Pope that morning. The encounter took place on the same day that Pope Leo XIV delivered his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square, continuing his catechesis series on the documents of the Second Vatican Council with a reflection on its first constitution, the 1963 Sacrosanctum Concilium on the sacred liturgy.
