Pope Leo XIV has called on the young people of Angola to help shape a society marked by justice, peace and human dignity, telling pilgrims gathered at one of the country’s best-known Marian shrines that the Gospel demands more than private devotion. Speaking during a rosary gathering at Mama Muxima on Sunday, the Pope said the faithful must work for a world in which war, poverty, injustice and dishonesty no longer prevail.
The encounter took place at the sanctuary known as “Mother of the Heart”, a place of longstanding importance in Angolan Catholic life. Leo told those assembled that he was glad to join them in Marian prayer and reflected on the rosary as a devotion both simple and profound, one that has long sustained Christian faith and mission. Drawing on the thought of St John Paul II, he presented it as a prayer that keeps the Church close to the freshness of its beginnings and ready to proclaim Christ to the world.
