In a 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope celebration yesterday, Leo XIV carried the jubilee cross like an ordinary pilgrim from the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall to St. Peter’s Basilica, where he then celebrated Mass for the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church. “All the fruitfulness of the Church and of the Holy See depends on the cross of Christ,” the Holy Father said in his homily. “Otherwise, it is only appearance, if not worse.” Earlier, Sister Maria Gloria Riva of the Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament spoke on the importance of working with eternity in mind.