Pope Leo XIV Speeches: Homilies, Messages & Audiences

« Before bombs fall, words fall: those that dehumanise, that delegitimise, that morally prepare violence. Disarming words is the first step to disarming the earth. And this also applies to the new forms of synthetic language that artificial intelligence generates with astonishing ease. »

« On this day when God has become a child, when omnipotence has chosen fragility, we look to Bethlehem. We also look to today's Bethlehems: Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Haiti, Congo. Children born among rubble. Mothers giving birth in refugee camps. For all of them we ask for unarmed and disarming peace. »

« A Curia that does not serve has no reason to exist. May we not be courtiers but collaborators of the Successor of Peter and servants of the particular churches. Reform has not ended: it will continue, not out of activism, but because the Church is always on the way of conversion. »

« For thirty years I lived in northern Peru, a land marked by the continuous movement of people in search of life. I have understood that no wall is higher than human dignity, and that migration, before being a political problem, is a concrete face of Christ knocking at our door. »

« Artificial intelligence cannot make decisions affecting life and human dignity without responsible human oversight. No machine should decide who lives and who dies, who works and who is discarded, who is protected and who is abandoned. Dignity is not computed. »

« Christian hope is not cheap optimism or psychological projection. It is the certainty that Christ has conquered death and walks with us. That is why we do not fear the darkness of the world: look at the stars, they are the same ones our ancestors saw, the same God who spoke to them speaks to us today. »

« Peter was not called for his qualities —he was a fisherman, impulsive, fragile— but by the love of the Lord who sought him. This ministry I receive today is not an honour, it is a burden; it is not a power, it is a service; it is not a privilege, it is a vocation to give my life for my brothers, especially for the smallest, the poorest, the most forgotten. »

« I have chosen the name Leo because Pope Leo XIII, with the historic encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. Today the Church offers to all her heritage of social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution: that of artificial intelligence, which poses new challenges to the defence of human dignity, justice and labour. »

« Peace be with all of you. Thank you, dear brothers, for this gathering. The peace of the risen Christ, an unarmed and disarming peace, humble and persevering. We want to be a synodal Church, a Church that walks, a Church that builds bridges, always open to welcome like this square with open arms. »