By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted July 7, 2026 <\/p>\n
Pope Leo XIV accepted the 2026 Liberty Medal during a July 3 ceremony at Philadelphia\u2019s National Constitution Center, addressing attendees via live broadcast from Rome. In accepting the honor, he reflected on the nation\u2019s founding ideals, emphasizing the dignity of every human person, protection of the vulnerable, and the need for unity grounded in enduring moral principles. Read our coverage of the ceremony here.<\/a> (Photos by Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted July 7, 2026 Pope Leo XIV accepted the 2026 Liberty Medal during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65437,7346,69,71,70,1841],"class_list":["post-237799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-liberty-medal","tag-national-constitution-center","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pope-leo-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}