# Pope Leo XIV Returns to General Audiences With a Talk on Family

- By: Pulpit News Newsroom
- 2026-11-02T12:50:00.000Z
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## Excerpt

At his first Wednesday audience since lung surgery, the pope devoted his catechesis to marriage as taught by Vatican II, a week after a Vatican meeting on the family. On 21 October 2026, Leo XIV led his first general audience in St Peter's Square since his lung operation on 13 October. The catechesis, on paragraphs 47 to 52 of the Council constitution Gaudium et spes, describes marriage as an 'intimate partnership of married life and love' and calls for protecting it and supporting families. It came a week after the 7-14 October meeting with presidents of bishops' conferences and heads of Eastern Churches marking ten years of Amoris laetitia.

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