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'Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.'

Pope Leo XIII

‘There is an indispensable commitment for anyone who exercises a ministry of authority in the Church: to disappear so that Christ may remain; to become small so that He may be known and glorified (cf. Jn 3:30); to give oneself entirely so that no one may be deprived of the opportunity to know and love Him’.

Pope Leo XIV

‘There are environments where it is not easy to witness to and proclaim the Gospel; where believers are ridiculed, opposed, disdained, or at best, tolerated or pitied. Yet precisely because of this, these are places where mission is most urgent, because the absence of faith often brings with it great suffering: the loss of meaning in life, forgetting of mercy, violations of human dignity in tragic ways, the crisis of the family, and many other wounds from which our society deeply suffers’.

Pope Leo XIV

‘Jesus – even though people admire Him as a man – is reduced to a kind of charismatic leader or superman. And this happens not only among nonbelievers but also among many baptized people who, on this level, end up living in a kind of practical atheism’.

Pope Leo XIV

‘Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labour”.

Pope Leo XIV

‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dream’s'.

Fyodor Dostoevsky