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I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council,
These are Gospel principles through which the merciful face of the Father has been revealed and continues to be revealed in the Son made man,
This is an image that offends believers, insults institutions and shows that the leader of the global right enjoys being a clown.”
Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi wrote on X It has been clearly seen in the example of so many of my predecessors, and most recently by Pope Francis himself, with his example of complete dedication to service and to sober simplicity of life, his abandonment to God throughout his ministry and his serene trust at the moment of his return to the Father’s house,
Pope Leo told the gathering There are different reasons for [the choice of Leo as a name], but mainly because Pope Leo XIII, in his historic encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution,
In a particular way, God has called me by your election to succeed the Prince of the Apostles, and has entrusted this treasure to me so that, with his help, I may be its faithful administrator for the sake of the entire mystical body of the church,
he said yesterday in his first homily as pope A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.”
In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour,
Rob used to like to play priest,
Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth,
Leo said, referring to the document, called Evangelii Gaudium