But, in one sign that he was his own pope, Leo’s first outing since his election, headed to a sanctuary south of Rome that was dedicated to Madonna, which was particularly important for his Augustine orders and his Pope Leo XIII of the same name.
When Leo arrives and greets them, the town residents of Genazzano gather in the square outside the main church. The shelter managed by Augustinian Friars has been a place of pilgrimage since the 15th century, and the former Pope Leo elevated it to a sub-cathedral and expanded its neighboring monastery in the early 1900s.
After praying in the church, Leo greets the townspeople and tells them that they have both gifts and responsibility to have Madonna among them. He offered his blessing and then returned to the passenger seat of the car, the Black Volkswagen. On his way back to the Vatican, he stopped to pray at the tomb of Francis in Major St. Mary’s Cathedral.
After Leo presided over his first official audience, the post-lunch outing was in the Cardinal elected by the Pope. Leo repeatedly quoted the 2013 mission statement of Francis and the Pope of Argentina, which clearly demonstrated that it made the Catholic Church more inclusive and focused on faithful and concerned churches and seeks “minimal and rejected” churches.
The first Pope Leo in the United States told the Cardinal that he was fully committed to the reform of the second Vatican parliament, the meeting to modernize the church in the 1960s. He identified AI as one of the main problems facing human beings, saying it posed a challenge to defending human dignity, justice and labor.
Meanwhile, some signs about the future appear in the Vatican, which provides Leo’s own tip: It reveals that on Saturday, Leo will retain his motto and badge as Chiclayo’s Bishop, and Peru emphasizes unity in the church.
St. Augustine declared in his sermon that “Although we have many Christians, in a Christ we are one man, and the motto was declared in St. Augustine. The symbol is a symbol of the Augustine order: the piercing heart and a book representing the Bible.
The Vatican also provides details about the two crosses of the breasts worn by Leo: it was a gift from Augustine’s order when he became Cardinal in 2023. It contains the relics of St. Augustine and his mother, Santa Monica, who are crucial in converting to Christianity.
St. Augustine of the Hippopos was one of theological and pious giants of early Christianity. Founded in the 13th century, Augustine’s Order is a community of “Mendicant” monks dedicated to poverty, service and evangelism.
Along with Pope Francis Leo, he mentioned AI when explaining his choice of name: his Pope Leo XIII was the Pope from 1878 to 1903 and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thinking. He did the most famous thing in the 1891 Encyclopedia novarum, which addressed workers’ rights and capitalism at dawn of the Industrial Age. The late Pope criticized laissez-faire capitalism and state-centered socialism, forming shapes for the Catholic veins of economic teaching.
Leo said in his speech on Saturday that he identified with his ex.
“In our own days, the church provides all with a treasury for social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and provides new challenges for the development of the field of artificial intelligence to defend human dignity, justice and labor.”
Francis ended his mission with increasing voices about the human threat posed by AI and called for an international treaty to regulate it.
Francis sees Chicago-born Augustine missionary Robert Prevost as an heir: he moved to a small Peruvian parish that took over the small Peruvian parish in 2014, and later, Prevost later became bishop and director of the Peruvian Bishop Council, and then called on him to go to Rome to refer to the most important Vatican party in the wilderness bishop vetting bishop persimations in 2023.
In his speech, Leo was published in Italian in Vatican’s Synod Hall, not in the Apostle Palace – Leo repeatedly mentions Francis and mourning for his death. He served as Francis’ 2013 mission statement “The Joy of the Gospel,” which was his own march command.
He cited Francis’ insistence on the missionary nature of the church and the need to make his leadership more collaborative. He cited the necessity of faithful statements “especially its most authentic, inclusive form, especially popular piety.”
Similarly, when referring to Francis’s mission statement in 2013, Leo cited the necessity of the church to express “at least and reject love” and engage in a brave dialogue with the contemporary world.
Leo reads a quick meeting from the prepared text, only occasionally looking up. Even if he first appeared in the world on Thursday night, Leo read from Italians’ prepared handwritten text that he had to draft sometime or after the historical elections. He seemed most willing to speak in a few words announced in Spanish.
Prevost was elected as the 267th expert on the fourth vote Thursday, an unusually fast result, given that it was the largest and most geographically diverse conference in history, rather than all the cardinals who knew each other before arriving in Rome.
Madagascar Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana told reporters on Saturday that in the final vote, Prevost received “more than 100 votes”. This shows that two-thirds or 89 votes to be elected are more than two-thirds or 89 votes.
Vatican Secretary of State Palorin contender Pietro Parolin, a commentary considered one of the pope’s top contenders, congratulated in a letter published Saturday in his hometown paper Il Giornale di Vicenza.
Parolin praised Leo’s grasp of today’s problems, recalling the first sentence he said from loggia, when he talked about the need for “disarmament and disarming”. Parolin said he appreciated Prevost’s leadership in Chiclayo, who he said he helped solve a particularly thorny problem – without details – and gradually appreciated his rule even more in the Vatican, who handled the bishop’s office in the Vatican.
Specifically, Parolin praised Leo’s understanding of people and situations, his “peace in arguments, balance in proposing solutions, respect, care and love”.
