Overview
- Leone XIV, who traveled Friday to Pompei for the noon Supplica prayer and then to Naples, marked his first year with a high‑profile pilgrimage.
- From the Pompei sanctuary he pressed for peace, criticizing an economy that favors arms sales over human life, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had briefed him the day before on the Iran crisis.
- In Naples he called for a pact linking government, the local Church, and citizens to confront crime, school dropouts, joblessness, and deep poverty.
- He highlighted concrete charity by visiting the Tempio della Carità and greeting sick and disabled people, citing newly canonized Bartolo Longo as his model.
- The visit drew a warm civic response and official praise, including public congratulations from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as a street‑side pizza gift to the Pope went viral.