In his first formal tackle to Roman Catholic cardinals, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday mentioned he would proceed the work of Pope Francis in steering the church in a extra missionary path, with better cooperation amongst church leaders and a closeness to the marginalized.
Leo mentioned he was dedicated to following a path of modernization that the Church started within the Sixties, and cited a major document that Francis issued in 2013. From that doc, Leo highlighted a number of targets, together with “development in collegiality,” “standard piety,” a “loving look after the least and the rejected,” and “brave and trusting dialogue with the modern world.”
“Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth,” Leo mentioned, referring to the doc, known as Evangelii Gaudium.
The brand new pope additionally defined the choice of his name. The earlier pope along with his identify, Leo XIII, issued a doc known as the “Rerum Novarum,” identified in English as “Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor,” within the late nineteenth century during which he emphasised the church’s proper to make assertions about social points as they associated to ethical questions.
The doc “addressed the social query within the context of the primary nice industrial revolution,” Leo defined.
Now, the pope added, one other industrial revolution was happening within the area of synthetic intelligence. That, he mentioned, would “pose new challenges for the protection of human dignity, justice and labor.”
The church, he mentioned, “gives to everybody the treasury of her social educating in response.”
The reference to Francis’ doc was not the one endorsement that the brand new pope gave of his predecessor. Francis, Leo famous, was a “humble servant of God and of his brothers and sisters,” who gave an “instance of full dedication to service and to sober simplicity of life.”
The cardinals appeared to have famous the message about sustaining the path set by Francis’ papacy.
As he exited the assembly the place Leo spoke, Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Venezuela mentioned the pope “spoke in regards to the continuity of the hold forth of Francis after which he requested some inquiries to us.” These questions had been “largely in regards to the formation of clergymen and bishops,” the cardinal added.
On his manner out of the assembly, Cardinal Sean Brady of Eire mentioned that Leo was within the means of “greeting everyone now, which may be very good.”
Jason Horowitz and Elizabeth Dias contributed reporting from Vatican Metropolis.
