In his first Sunday handle, new US-born Pope Leo XIV appealed for peace worldwide, particularly mentioning the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and welcoming the ceasefire between India and Pakistan on Might 10.
Welcoming the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, Pope Leo XIV expressed hope that the forthcoming negotiations would result in an enduring settlement between the 2 nations.
“I’m happy by the announcement of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, and I hope that by the forthcoming negotiations an enduring settlement will quickly be reached,” Pope Leo XIV mentioned on X.
“I carry in my coronary heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian folks,” Pope Leo XIV mentioned, urging for an “genuine, simply and lasting peace as quickly as potential” in Ukraine.
He additionally known as for the discharge of prisoners and the reunification of kids with their households.
“Might all of the prisoners be freed and will the kids return to their households,” he mentioned.
Concerning the Gaza Strip, the Pope expressed deep unhappiness over the continuing battle and known as for an instantaneous ceasefire.
“I’m deeply saddened by what is occurring within the Gaza Strip. Stop hearth instantly! Let humanitarian support be supplied to the exhausted civilian inhabitants, and let all hostages be freed,” he mentioned.
Pope Leo, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, was elected Thursday, changing into the primary US-born Pope. This information shocked and delighted many Catholics throughout the Americas, CNN reported.
In his first formal assembly with cardinals, which started with a standing ovation, the brand new pontiff mentioned he selected his papal title to proceed down the trail of Pope Leo XIII, who addressed “the social query within the context of the primary nice industrial revolution.”
Pope Leo XIII dominated the Roman Catholic Church from 1878 till he died in 1903 and is remembered as a pope of Catholic social instructing. He wrote a well-known open letter to all Catholics in 1891, known as “Rerum Novarum” (“Of Revolutionary Change”), which mirrored on the destruction wrought by the Industrial Revolution on the lives of staff.
“In our personal day, the church provides to everybody the treasury of her social instructing in response to a different industrial revolution and to developments within the area of synthetic intelligence that pose new challenges for the protection of human dignity, justice and labor,” the brand new American pontiff mentioned Saturday, talking in fluent Italian, as quoted by CNN.
Carrying the white robes of the papacy, he strongly signalled to the cardinals that his management would construct upon Pope Francis’s church reforms and legacy of social justice.