{"id":77573,"date":"2025-05-20T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=77573"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T11:21:15","slug":"will-pope-leo-xiv-attend-the-international-eucharistic-congress-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/05\/20\/will-pope-leo-xiv-attend-the-international-eucharistic-congress-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Pope Leo XIV attend the International Eucharistic Congress in Sydney?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Leo the 14th continues to receive invitations from high-ranking leaders to visit their countries\u2014ranging from the kings of Spain and Colombian President Gustavo Petro to the Vice President of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Australia has joined the list. Its Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, had a private meeting with the Pope, proposed a very specific date for him to visit.<br>He invited Pope Leo XIV to travel to Sydney in 2028. The reason: to take part in the International Eucharistic Congress\u2014an event Australia will host, commemorating 100 years since it first gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sydney's Archbishop, Anthony Fisher, also hopes that Pope Leo XIV will travel to the city.<br>In his statement to Australian media, he said that the Pope\u2019s presence would be a powerful catalyst for evangelization and the reaffirmation of faith throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few months ago, in an interview with this outlet, Fisher already spoke about what he believes will be one of the main challenges of the Eucharistic Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTHONY FISHER, OP, Archbishop of Sydney<\/strong><br><em>After the period of Covid, after a long period of secularization in Western Countries, like my own, there are a lot of Catholics who are not very connected with the Eucharistic or as connected as they should be.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo's visit to Australia would be a great opportunity, not to mention that it\u2019s a country he knows well. When he was Prior General of the Augustinians, the then-Father Prevost visited Australia on several occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CA<br>Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Pope Leo XIV travel to Australia?<br \/>\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has invited him to visit Sydney to take part in the International Eucharistic Congress in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":77574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PG73zNcWMLE","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bprimoministroaustralianoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bprimoministroaustralianoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77581,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77573\/revisions\/77581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}