Pope Leo XIV wears only white socks and he doesn’t have a set starting word for Wordle every day.

These were some of the insights he shared on Friday with 16,000 young people gathered at a football stadium in Indianapolis at the National Catholic Youth Conference.

From his armchair at the Vatican, Pope Leo, the first American pope, spoke to the American young people via screen. The event, which the Catholic Church called “historic,” wasn’t a direct address, but instead a dialogue in which the pope answered prepared questions from five young people from across the country — Iowa, California, Nevada, Maryland and Hawaii.

The Catholic church has been celebrating 2025 as a special Jubilee year, a year of forgiveness and renewal that was kicked off by Pope Francis in January. In July, Pope L

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