Holy See Press Office Bulletin, 24 October 2026

Today's Holy See Press Office Bulletin, 24 October, so far contains four communications: the audience with participants in the Jesus Youth International Conference 2026 (Bulletin); the audiences (Bulletin); a resignation and succession (Bulletin); the promulgation of decrees of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints (N. 0835, Bulletin, Italian).

Audience with the Jesus Youth International Conference 2026. This morning, in the Paul VI Hall, Pope Leo XIV received the participants in the Jesus Youth International Conference 2026. In his address, delivered in English, the Pope noted that "it is the first time that the Jesus Youth movement, with all of its leaders and delegates, is meeting with the Successor of Peter", forty years after the movement's inception in Kerala, India. He urged: "Do not lose your apostolic zeal, but rather foster it and carry it to new countries", and encouraged them to work with families to support the vocation to married life. He asked priests and bishops to overcome "any difficulties that might arise from ritual differences, so as to seek above all the highest spiritual good of young people". Text on vatican.va

The audiences. This morning the Pope received Archbishop Filippo Iannone, O. Carm., prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops; Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints; His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; participants in the meeting organized by the "Jesus Youth International Conference 2026".

Resignation and succession of the bishop of Kolda, Senegal. The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Kolda, Senegal, presented by Bishop Jean-Pierre Bassène. He is succeeded by Bishop Joseph Francis Janvier Badji, hitherto coadjutor bishop of the same diocese. Appointments published by the Press Office are collected in the Appointments section.

Decrees of the Causes of Saints: six new Venerables. During the audience with Cardinal Semeraro, the Pope authorized the promulgation of decrees on the heroic virtues of (our translation; no official English text yet): Oreste Marengo, Salesian, titular bishop of Arsacal, former apostolic administrator of Tura (1906-1998, died in Tura, India); Friedrich Kaiser Depel, first prelate of the territorial prelature of Caravelí, Missionary of the Sacred Heart and founder of the Missionaries of Jesus Word and Victim (1903-1993, died in Lima, Peru); Domenico Pogliani, diocesan priest, founder of the Holy Family Institute (1838-1921, born in Milan); Alessandro Vitetti, diocesan priest (1915-1995, born in Cirò, Italy); Daniele of San Giovanni Rotondo (born Michele Natale), Capuchin friar (1919-1994); Margarita Bavosi, known as "Luminosa", consecrated laywoman of the Work of Mary (Focolare Movement) (1941-1985, born in Buenos Aires, died in Albano Laziale, Italy).

Sources: Holy See Press Office, Bulletin of 24 October; vatican.va

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