Father Salvo to Newsmax: Pope’s Chicago Address Important to Young People

Pope Leo XIV, delivering a message of hope to young people on the Jumbotron at the White Sox stadium in Chicago Saturday, was important in the church’s mission to cultivate young people, Father Enrique Salvo, rector at St. Patrick Cathedral in New York City, said Sunday on Newsmax. 

“It’s very important, especially in this very exciting time, that we have the first American Pope,” Salvo said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “But it’s so important now to cultivate young people because they are coming back. They are realizing that they need God. But we, of course, have to encourage them. We have to be there for them.”

And Leo, a Chicago native, “provided a beneficial thing for all of them” with his message, said Salvo. 

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