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Oct 23, 2026
Michael KellyHOST
I know you're too modest to bring this up yourself, Brandon, so I will ask you about it.
Michael KellyHOST
You actually traveled to Rome at the beginning of October as well, ahead of the initiative to be with Pope Leo in the Vatican Gardens to launch the One Million Children campaign.
Michael KellyHOST
It was a great honor that Pope Leo launched it for us.
Michael KellyHOST
What was that experience like?
Brandon ScottHOST
Oh, it was, you know, it was brilliant to get a ringing endorsement from the Pope, first and foremost, you know, that was brilliant.
Brandon ScottHOST
And it was a wonderful occasion, Vatican Gardens, there were so many young school children from local schools in Rome.
Brandon ScottHOST
old speaking Italian, which I pretended to understand.
Brandon ScottHOST
But it was fantastic to see, you know, just the global dimension to all of this.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
One fascinating link between the Holy See and Our Lady of Copacabana can be found right in the heart of Vatican City.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
In addition to her papal decrees, a mosaic of Our Lady of Copacabana is permanently enshrined in the Vatican Gardens, where national patronesses from around the world stand as symbols of devotion and global unity.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
Bolivian church authorities and the Holy See formally blessed this image in Rome to symbolize her enduring connection to the Universal Church.
Stephanie GeorgieffHOST
The mosaic was ceremoniously unveiled on September 25, 2017, during the ad limina visit of the Bolivian Catholic bishops to Rome, where they met with Pope Francis.
Todd HermanHOST
And one of the reasons he's compared to Francis is because of his heterodox track record.
Todd HermanHOST
He participated in the Pachamama ritual in the Vatican Gardens in 2019, has promoted a synodal church, suggested that couples living in adultery may receive Holy Communion when he denied that there is a formula for all on upholding the church's prohibition of Holy Communion for the divorced and quote remarried.
Todd HermanHOST
Oh.
Todd HermanHOST
Oh, so there's not a formula for all for Catholics.
Donal O'Sullivan LatchfordHOST
Praying for liberation from the scourge of war.
Donal O'Sullivan LatchfordHOST
The campaign for peace began at the start of October with the Pope in the Vatican Gardens and will continue until October 7th, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which is when this program is due to air, Father.
Eamonn McCarthyHOST
Father.Yeah, and Aid to the Church in Need have their annual, has become their annual invitation as well for a million children to pray the rosary.
Eamonn McCarthyHOST
And on the first of October when the Pope gathered with them in, uh, the Vatican Gardens there at the grotto in the Vatican was part of endorsing that amazing work.
Eamonn McCarthyHOST
And in Lourdes he advocated as well, uh, and he put in very strong words.
Eamonn McCarthyHOST
He said, "As if Our Lady herself is issuing this invitation, I invite you to offer up the rosary every day in the month of October with the specific intent- intention, uh, of peace in the world." So any local initiative that can be undertaken, we had the Rosary on the Coast, if you remember, not so long ago.
Anthony StineHOST
Now, granted, this isn't the first pagan ritual done in a Catholic church in the last few years.
Anthony StineHOST
We've kind of seen this becoming more normalized after the original Pachamama ritual involving a curial official, this one, of course, being the one involving Pope Francis himself back in 2019, where there was an enthronement ceremony, a two-parter, The first part of the enthronement happened in the Vatican Gardens.
Anthony StineHOST
That's what most people saw.
Anthony StineHOST
And then footage showed them processing their little demonic idol into St. Peter's Basilica to finish the enthronement.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
The world one week of praying the Rosary for peace entered its fifth day on Monday.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
It was launched last Thursday, October 1st, by Pope Leo XIV, who was joined by hundreds of children from Rome at the Grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens to pray the Rosary.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
Similar initiatives were organized on Thursday in 94 countries on the continents of Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
The initiative is codenamed One Million Children Praying the Rosary and is promoted by the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need under the theme, In the End, My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph.
Francesca MerloHOST
In particular, he said, let us pray for the Holy Land and for the innocent victims of violence.
Francesca MerloHOST
The campaign began at the start of October, with the Pope joining children in the Vatican Gardens, and it continues until the 7th of October, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, allowing parishes, schools and families to choose a day to take part.
Francesca MerloHOST
Pope Leo also announced a week-long gathering marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis' document on love in the family.
Francesca MerloHOST
Beginning on Wednesday the 7th of October, the gathering will bring the heads of the Eastern Churches and presidents of bishops' conferences to the Paul VI Hall in the Pope's presence.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
After the Angelus, Pope Leon reiterated his invitation to the faithful to pray the Rosary during this month of October, with the special intention that wars may cease and peace may be built.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
He said among the first to do so were the children who prayed the Rosary with him in different parts of the world at the beginning of this month in the Vatican Gardens.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
Under the initiative, a million children praying the Rosary.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
promoted by the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
The Holy Father also informed the faithful that he had convoked the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the presidents of the World Episcopal Conferences this coming Wednesday, October 7, the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, to discuss the pastoral care for families.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
Those who protect others must first guard within themselves the truth, justice, and goodness, and respect.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
Those were the words of Pope Leo XIV to the Vatican police officers on Saturday evening when he celebrated Holy Mass with and for them in the Vatican gardens on the occasion of the Feast of Michael the Archangel.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
their patron saint reflecting from the book of prophet isaiah pope leo told the members of the vatican police that their service is a way of being laborers in the lord's vineyard because entrusted to their care are places entrances and buildings but above all people He thanked them for their service to the Vatican State and to the Holy See, particularly for looking at people not as a problem to be solved, but as individuals to be respected and guarded.
Francesca MerloHOST
This first week of October, the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need is supporting the One Million Children Praying the Rosary initiative, aimed at uniting children around the world in praying for peace through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Francesca MerloHOST
On the 1st of October, around 1,300 children from in and around Rome prayed the rosary with Pope Leo in the Vatican Gardens as part of the initiative.
Francesca MerloHOST
And as the week of prayer continues, Vatican Radio spoke with Aid to the Church Needs Executive President Regina Lynch about the work the Pontifical Foundation is doing to support Christians throughout the world.
Regina LynchSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So ACN has the mission to help the church in her mission to evangelize, in particular in countries where Christians are persecuted or discriminated against, or simply where the church lacks the means, the financial means to carry out her mission.
Zofia ChubekCORRESPONDENT
their prayers.
Zofia ChubekCORRESPONDENT
More than 700 of those children joined Pope Leo at the Lord's Grotto in the Vatican Gardens yesterday as part of the initiative led by the Aid to the Church in Need.
Zofia ChubekCORRESPONDENT
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