Pope Leo XIV describes his vision for the papacy, promises to continue the late Pope Francis

Papa Leo XIV He made a surprise visit to a sanctuary to the south of Rome that is dedicated to Madonna and of importance to his Augustinian order.

The townspeople of Genazzano gathered in the square outside the main church that houses the Sanctuary of Mother of Buon, waiting for Leo to go out, according to the images transmitted by the Catholic TV2000 of Italy. The Pontiff was expected to bless the crowd after finishing his prayers.

Leo previously visited the sanctuary, administered by the Augustinian friars, last year, when he was a cardinal. It has been a pilgrimage place since the fifteenth century.

The pontiff before presented his papacy’s vision on Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence As one of the most critical issues facing humanity and promised to continue in some of the central priorities of Pope Francis.

At his first formal hearing, Leo repeatedly cited Francis and the 2013 Mission Declaration of the Argentine Pope, making clear a commitment to make the More inclusive Catholic Churchattentive to the faithful and a church that seeks the “minimum and rejected.”

Leo, the First American Popethey told the cardinals who chose him that he was completely committed to the reforms of the second Vatican Council, the meetings of the 1960s that modernized the Church. He identified AI as one of the main problems faced by humanity, saying that he raises challenges to defend human dignity, justice and work.

On another track of his priorities, the Vatican revealed that Leo, a member of the Augustinian religious order, would retain the motto and the coat of arms he had as Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru. The motto, “in Ilo Unum”, was pronounced by St. Augustine in a sermon to explain that “although Christians are many, in the only Christ we are one.”

Leo referred to AI to explain the Choice of your name: His homonym, Pope Leo XIII, was Pope from 1878 to 1903 and laid the foundations for modern Catholic social thinking. He made him more famous with his encyclical novarum of 1891, which addressed the rights of workers and capitalism at the dawn of the industrial era. The deceased Pope criticized both the capitalism of Laissez-Faire and socialism focused on the state, shaping a clearly Catholic vein of economic education.

In his comments on Saturday, Leo said he identified with his predecessor, who addressed the great social issue of the day raised by the industrial revolution in the encyclical.

“In our own day, the Church offers all the treasure of its social education in response to another industrial revolution and the developments in the field of artificial intelligence that raise new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work,” he said.

Towards the end of his pontificate, Francis became more and more vocal about the threats for humanity raised by AI and requested an international treaty to regulate it.

He warned that such a powerful technology runs the risk of turning human relationships into simple algorithms. Francis brought his message to the group of seven industrialized nations when he went to his summit last year, insisting that AI must remain focused on the human so that decisions about when to use weapons or even less lethal tools always remain taken by humans and not machines.

The late Argentine Pope also used his 2024 Annual Peace Message To request an international treaty to ensure that AI is developed and used ethically, arguing that a technology that lacks human values ​​of compassion, mercy, morality and forgiveness is too dangerous to develop without control.

Francis, in many ways, saw the Augustinian missionary born in Chicago Robert Prevost as an apparent heir: he transferred him to take care of a small Peruvian diocese in 2014, where Prevost later became bishop and head of the Peruvian Bishops conference, and then called him to Rome to carry out one of the most important offices that contaminate the nominations of Bishop in Bishop 2023.

In the speech, delivered in Italian in the Synod room of the Vatican, not in the Apostolic Palace, Leo made references repeated to Francis and the mourning for his death. He stopped Francis’s mission statement at the beginning of 2013 of his pontificate, “the joy of the Gospel”, as something of his own marching orders, which suggests that he intends to continue a lot in Francisco’s priorities.

He cited Francis’s insistence on the missionary nature of the Church and the need to make his leadership more collegiate. He cited the need to pay attention to what the faithful say “especially in their most authentic and inclusive forms, especially popular piety.” Again, referring to the Declaration of the Mission of Francis 2013, Leo cited the need for the Church to express “love care at least and rejected” and participate in a brave dialogue with the contemporary world.

Received by an ovation standing when he entered, Leo read of his prepared text, just looking up occasionally. Even when the world first appeared at the Lodge of the Basilica of San Pedro on Thursday night, Leo read of a hand -written text that must have written at some point before his historical choice or the time more or less. He seemed more comfortable, speaking out of the fist in the few words he pronounced in Spanish.

Louis Prezost He told News themezone that his younger brother always had a call towards religion.

“Rob used to play priest,” said Louis Prevost. “We would say ‘we are going to play police and thieves’, and he would say:’ I want to play the priest first.”

Prevost was chosen on the 267th Pontiff on Thursday in the fourth vote of the conclave, a Exceptionally fast result Since this was the largest and most geographically diverse conclave in history and not all cardinals were known before arriving in Rome.

The cardinals have said that Prevost did not pronounce any important speech during the discussions prior to the confunclave, and that the traditional taboo led to the conclave that prevents a Pope from the United States given the United States superpower state. But Prevost was already known by many of them given their decades as a missionary and then bishop in Peru, and had been the head of the Vatican Bishop Office since 2023.

They said it caused an impression in smaller groups where English was the key language of communication in a conclave that brought together 133 cardinals from 70 countries.

The Cardinal of Madagascar, Désiré Tsarahazana, told reporters on Saturday that on the final ballot, Prevost had received “more” from 100 votes. That suggests an extraordinary margin, far beyond two thirds, or 89 votes, necessary to be chosen.

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