Pope Francis selected the theme for this year’s celebration of World Mission Sunday: Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples. Earlier this year, we were blessed with the election of Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago. He was sent forth to the Augustinian mission world, served as a missionary bishop in Chiclayo, Peru and now is in the Vatican. Under Pope Leo, the Pontifical Mission Societies coordinate missionary formation and animate a missionary spirit in every nation and diocese.