Pope Urges Focus On Digital Revolution In First Address To College Of Cardinals

Pope Leo XIV made his first general reside to nan College of Cardinals connected Saturday, May 10. His connection focused connected nan request to salary adjacent attraction to nan integer revolution.

Reflecting connected nan words of his erstwhile namesake, Leo XIII, who served arsenic pope from 1878 to 1903 and oversaw nan first business revolution, “Today, nan Church offers to each her wealth of societal school successful consequence to different business gyration and nan developments of artificial intelligence.” 

The pope paid tribute to his nonstop predecessor, remembering Pope Francis’ simplicity and his extremist dedication to service. “Let america wealth this precious bequest and resume our journey,” he said, “animated by nan aforesaid dream that comes from faith.”

For his first travel extracurricular nan Vatican, Pope Leo XIV chose to sojourn nan Shrine of nan Mother of Good Counsel successful Genazzano. The shrine is location to an ancient image of nan Virgin Mary and was overmuch loved by Pope Leo XIII.

On nan measurement backmost to nan Vatican, Pope Leo stopped astatine St. Mary Major, wherever he paused successful dream earlier nan tomb of Pope Francis and nan icon of nan Virgin Mary, the Holy See Press Office reported.

The past clip Pope Leo XIV had prayed astatine Francis’ tomb was when, nether his erstwhile personality arsenic Cardinal Robert Prevost, he joined members of nan College of Cardinals and went to nan papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major aft it had conscionable been unfastened to nan public.

Following respective secretive gatherings among 133 cardinals pursuing nan decease of Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV was named connected Thursday, May 8.

The 69-year-old was born successful Chicago and became a missionary, spending overmuch of his profession successful Peru arsenic a minister. He was besides nan prefect of nan Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops starting successful 2023 nether Pope Francis. He was past promoted to cardinal-bishop successful February by nan erstwhile pope.

The action of Prevost, a national from a world “superpower,” is simply a uncommon one, arsenic nan Vatican has mostly gone nan different guidance successful its action of caller popes.

Prevost’s familial roots trace backmost to Italian, French and Spanish ancestors.