Pope celebrates Mass for local homeless people and invites them to lunch

Pope Leo XIV (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Leo XIV spent the last Sunday of his summer holiday with several dozen homeless and poor people – and the church volunteers who help them, celebrating a special Mass and inviting them into the Vatican’s lakeside estate for a lunch of lasagne and roast veal.

Leo celebrated Mass in the St Mary sanctuary of Albano, near the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo where he is on holiday.