Vatican City: St. Peter’s Square came alive on Saturday as Pope Leo XIV held a special Jubilee Audience during the Jubilee of Catechists, drawing thousands of participants from across the world. The Pope used the occasion to reflect on the sensus fidei the deep, instinctive faith of ordinary believers which he described as the force that propels the Church forward along new and hopeful paths.
In his catechesis, Pope Leo spoke movingly about the unique intuition of the faithful, calling it a “sixth sense for the things of God.” He stressed that God reveals Himself to the humble and the simple, and that the collective faith of the People of God carries its own infallibility. This sensus fidei, he explained, is not separate from the infallibility of the Pope but is rather expressed and ser