In its first formal address for the Roman Catholic Cardinals, Pope Leo XIV On Saturday he said that he would continue to work in the work of Pope Francis in the management of the church in a more missionary direction, with greater cooperation between the Church leaders and the proximity to the marginalized.
Leo said he was determined to follow the path of modernization that the Church began at the age of 60 and quoted main document that Francis published in 2013. From this document, Leo emphasized several goals, including “growth in collegiality”, “popular piety”, “loving care the least and rejected” and “bold and trustworthy dialogue with the contemporary world”.
“Francis interpreted it masterfully and specifically,” Leo said with reference to the document, called, called, The joy of the gospel.
The new Pope also explained The choice of his name. The previous Pope with his name, Leo XIII, published a document entitled “Rerum Novarum”, known in English as “Rights and Obligations of Capital and Work”, at the end of the 19th century in which he emphasized the right of the Church on the basis of social issues because they concerned moral issues.
The document “dealt with the social question in the context of the first major industrial revolution,” Leo explained.
Now, the Pope added another industrial revolution in the field of artificial intelligence. The way he said “would” represent new challenges for defense of human dignity, justice and work “.
The Church said, “It offers all the Ministry of Her Social Learning in response.”
The reference to Francis’s document was not the only confirmation that the new Pope gave his predecessor. Francis, noted Leo, was a “modest of God’s servant and his brothers and sisters”, who introduced “an example of a complete determination of service and sober simplicity of life”.
Cardinals seemed to have noticed a message to maintain the direction set by Francis’s Pope.
When he left the meeting where Leo spoke, Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Venezuela said that the Pope “spoke about František’s continuity and then asked us a few questions.” These questions were “mostly about the formation of priests and bishops,” added the cardinal.
On the way out of the meeting, Cardinal Sean Brady from Ireland said that Leo was in the process “greeting now, which is very nice”.
Jason Horowitz and Elizabeth Dias He contributed by reporting from the town of Vatican.
