The new Pope Leo XIV explained this Saturday to the cardinals in a private meeting, that chose the name of Leo XIV because he considers that the Church currently must Faces the challenges of “another industrial revolution” and the development of Artificial intelligence.
“When I felt called to continue this path, I thought of taking the name of Leo XIV. There are several reasons, but the main one is because Pope Leo XIII, with the historical encyclical Revolutionary, he faced the social problem In the context of the first great industrial revolution and today the Church offers everyone, its equity of social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution and the developments of artificial intelligence, which involve new challenges in Defense of human dignity, justice and work“Leo XIV said, in his speech in front of the cardinals, published by the press office of the Holy See.
Also, he invited the cardinals to “Renew together” His “full adhesion” to the “route that for decades the universal Church is on tour after the traces of the Council of Vatican II”, whose content “Pope Francis recalled and masterfully updated” in apostolic exhortation Evangelical joy.
On this exhortation, Leo XIV highlighted as “fundamental notes”The “return to the primacy of Christ in the announcement, the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community, growth at school and synodality, attention on” sensus fidei “, especially in its more proper and inclusive forms, such as popular piety; the care of the love of weak and waste and the brave dialogues and the courageous dialogue and with trust with the contemporary world in its different components and reality.
The new pontiff faced cardinals as their “closer collaborators” and specified that this We need “comfort by accepting a yoke that clearly exceeds” its “forces”. “His presence reminds me that the Lord, who entrusted me to me this mission, does not leave me alone with the burden of this responsibility. First of all, I know that I always say it, always, with his help,” he underlined.
In addition, he showed his thanks to the dean of Cardinal College, the cardinal Giovanni Battista Rewho, as he said “deserves an applause, at least one, if no longer” for his help and “his wisdom, the result of a long life and many years of faithful service to the apostolic headquarters; at Camarlengo, the cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell “For the precious and difficult role he played during the period of vacant place and the convocation of the Conclave” and dedicated a memory for the cardinals who were unable to be present for health reasons.
Leo XIV enhanced the figure of the potatoes who preceded him and asked to collect Francisco’s “precious legacy”of which he highlighted “his style of total dedication to the service and sober essentiality of life, abandonment in God during the time of the mission and serene trust at the time of his father’s return to the home”. “We collect this precious inheritance and return the roadanimated by the same hope that comes from faith, “he underlined.
Therefore, he encouraged to be “docile listeners” of the voice of Jesus Christ and “faithful ministers of his drawings of salvation”, remembering that “God loves to communicate, rather than in the warmth of thunder or the earthquake, in the voice of a soft breeze or, as some translate it, into a subtle voice of silence”. “This is the important meeting, which must not be lost and to which You have to educate and accompany To all the Holy People of God, “he added.
Furthermore, he recalled the “affection and devotion” expressed by the Catholics on the occasion of the death of Pope Francis, to whom They “shot and planted”, And he assured that this is “the true greatness of the Church, which lives in the variety of its members, combined with his only leader, Christ”.
In the end, he did his e Has proposed to the cardinals the desire that Saint Paul VIIn 1963, expressed at the beginning of his Ministry of Petrine: “which over the world exceeds a great flame of faith and love that illuminate all men of goodwill, running the paths of mutual collaboration and that attracts humanity, the abundance of divine benevolence, the same strength of God, without whose help is worthy or other is holy”.
After the speech, the new Pope has maintained a conversation with cardinals of Cardinal College, assuming some of the issues and proposals that presented themselves in the interventions of the General Congregations, as reported by the press office of the Holy See.
According to the news of the Vatican, the head of the press office of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni, explained that the Pope’s meeting with the cardinals lasted Two hours, from 10:00 to 12:00And he began with a greeting by Cardinal Dean Giovanni Battista Re. After the Pope’s speech, several cardinals intervened with suggestions and proposals.
