During Holy Week, Pope Leo urges Christians to be prophets of unity

ROME – During his first Holy Week after his election last year, Pope Leo XIV offered a lengthy reflection on Christian mission and the need to be missionaries of unity and hope in a world in crisis.

Himself a longtime missionary, the pope in his April 2 Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday said the commemoration of Jesus’s death and resurrection has the ability “to transform what human pride generally tends to harden: our identity and our place in the world.”

Jesus’s freedom...