Praying with the Popes Small-Group Guide

“Praying with the Popes is great! It will help you meet our most recent Holy Fathers, learn about their lives, and engage with their ideas about how to care for others and create a more just and peaceful world. This book will help you pray, reflect, and study. And you will love the Church all the more because of it.”

“Reading this book is like walking through the Vatican Gardens arm in arm with the popes, learning something of each one’s personal story and papal pronouncements as you go. It effortlessly leads you through the paths of history of the Catholic Church during the last 147 years. A book that manages to both strengthen the intellect and sweeten the soul!”

“I spend much of my time chasing news, so it was refreshing to pause and pray with the words of these popes. A resource that offers much fruit for spiritual reflection on the Church’s last almost 150 years as we enter into a new papacy.”

“Praying with the Popes helps you listen to our Holy Fathers over the last century and a half and get to know them. From the wisdom of Leo XIII to that of Leo XIV, through reflection and prayer, you can make the Church’s social teaching your own.”

“Praying with the Popes is a remarkable companion for everyone seeking to deepen their prayer lives and their understanding of Catholic social teaching. By weaving together the voices of twelve popes, it offers timeless wisdom and practical reflections that inspire hope, peace, and faithful action today.”

“This book offers a great way not only to learn about Catholic social teaching but also to truly understand how integral it is to our faith and how consistently it has been taught for so long. I quite enjoyed learning new things about our popes at the same time as I was being challenged to put into practice the ideals they have invited us to live out.”