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Dio GallupThe significance of the name “Leo”:
Our current Pope Leo has confirmed that he takes great inspiration from the previous Pope Leo XIII, who served as Pontiff from 1878 – 1903. Leo XIII wrote the great encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed challenges to labor posed by new technology, and which serves even today as a major source of Catholic social teaching.
In a recent addresss to Cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said:
“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 defense of human dignity, justice and labor.”
In his first homily as Pope, he also stressed the need to follow Christ in being courageous as we live out our faith:
“Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent. Settings where other securities are preferred, like technology, money, success, power, or pleasure.
“These are contexts where it is not easy to preach the Gospel and bear witness to its truth, where believers are mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied. Yet, precisely for this reason, they are the places where our missionary outreach is desperately needed. 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.”
Read “Rerum Novarum” here: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Read the full text of Pope Leo’s first homily here: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263981/full-text-pope-leo-xiv-s-homily-at-mass-with-the-cardinal-electors-in-the-sistine-chapel
