In his first speech before the diplomatic corps accredited before the Holy See, Pope Leo Xiv reaffirmed this Friday, clearly, the Catholic doctrine about the family, the dignity of the human being from the conception and attention to migrants, thus marking the priorities of his pontificate.
“It is the task of who has government responsibility to be applied to build harmonic and peaceful civil societies. This can be done above all investing in the family, founded on the stable union between men and women, ‘Very small, it is true, but true society and older than any other ‘”Said the Pope in the Clementine room of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
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That quoted phrase within his speech is a direct appointment of the encyclical Of the revolutionary of Pope Leo XIII, considered the founding document of the Church’s social doctrine and one of the reasons why Cardinal Robert Prevost decided to be called Leo XIV after being elected Pope, as Pope, as He explained in his meeting with the cardinals May 10.
The defense of life and migrants
In his speech this Friday, Pope Leo XIV also specified the importance of defending human life in all its phases, especially the most vulnerable.
“No one can exempt themselves from favor contexts in which the dignity of each person is guarded, especially those most fragile and helpless, from the child to be born to the old man, from the patient to the unemployed, be they these citizens or immigrants,” he said.
“My own story is that of a citizen, descendant of immigrants, who in turn has emigrated,” said the Pope, referring to his pastoral work in Peru over many years.
“Each of us, in the course of life, can be found healthy or sick, busy or unemployed, in their homeland or in foreign land. His dignity, however, it is always the same, that of a dear creature and loved by God,” said the Holy Father.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.