In his first formal speech to the Roman Catholic cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that Pope Francis would continue to lead the Church in a more missionary direction, with greater cooperation between the leaders of the Church and a closure.
Leo said he was committed to following a path of modernization that the Church began in the 1960s, and cited an important document that Francis issued in 2013. From that document, Leo highlighted multiple multiple, including “lasting”, “a” a world of care care care with collar, “” “” “” a collar care care “,” “dialogue of value and confidence with the contemporary contemporary”.
“Francis masterfully established it and concrete,” said Leo, referring to the document, called Evangelii Gaudium.
The new Pope also explained the choice of his name. The previous Pope with his name, Leo XIII, issued a document called “Rerum Novarum”, known in English as “Capital and Labor Rights”, at the end of the 19th century in which he emphasized the right of the Church to ask affirmation questions.
The document “addressed the social issue in the context of the first major industrial revolution,” Leo explained.
Now, the Pope added, another industrial revolution was taking place in the field of artificial intelligence. That, he said, “would raise new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work.”
The Church, he said, “offers everyone the treasure of their social education in response.”
The reference to Francis’s document was not the only support that the new Pope gave to his predecessor. Francis, Leo said, was a “humble servant of God and his brothers and sisters”, who gave a “example of complete dedication to the service and the sober simplicity of life.”
The cardinals seemed to have noticed the message about the maintenance of the direction established by Francis’s papacy.
When he left the meeting where Leo spoke, Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo or Venezuela said the Pope “spoke about the continuity of Francis’s pontificate and then asked us some questions.” These questions were “mainly about the formation of priests and bishops,” added the cardinal.
Upon leaving the meeting, Cardinal Sean Brady de Ireland said that Leo was in the “greet everyone now, which is very pleasant.”
Jason Horowitz and Elizabeth days Reports contributed from the city of the Vatican.
