Pope entrusts wounded children to Mary during Lake Albano procession

At his summer retreat beside Lake Albano, Pope Leo XIV led a historic Marian procession in which he formally entrusted wounded children to the intercession of Mary, asking the faithful to resist the slow corruption that hatred and injustice work upon the human heart. The act was at once ceremonial and urgent — a public declaration that the spiritual care of suffering children belongs not to private devotion alone, but to the conscience of the whole Church. In choosing a place of quietude over a grand basilica, the Pope seemed to suggest that the most serious moral commitments are made not in s