Launching his papacy with a call for reconciliation and communion, Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as the successor of St. Peter by calling for “a united church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world.”
“In this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference and an economic paradigm that exploits the Earth’s resources and marginalizes the poorest,” the new pope said in his homily during his inauguration Mass May 18, which Daniel Cardinal DiNardo concelebrated with the pontiff.
During the Mass, the pope received his woolen pallium, symbolizing his role as shepherd of the universal church, and a fisherman’s ring, evoking St. Peter’s mission to draw people into Christ’s net.
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(Photos by Catholic News Service/Vatican Media/Reuters)
