Vatican Media \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe American Robert Francis Prevost, who became the first American pope in history on Thursday under the name of L\u00e9on XIV, explained the choice of his name by a commitment on the social question in the face of the challenges of the industrial revolution and artificial intelligence, Saturday May 10, during a meeting with the Cardinals College.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> Beno\u00eet, Fran\u00e7ois, Paul and the others: how do the popes choose their names? <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n“There are several reasons”<\/em> to this choice, “Mainly because Pope Leo XIII, with historical encyclical <\/em>Rerum novarumaddressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution \u201d<\/em>said L\u00e9on XIV, 69, according to the French translation of his speech transmitted by the Vatican. This encyclical of 1891, which can be translated as “new things” or “innovations”, is the inaugural text of the “social doctrine” of the Catholic Church, articulated on the principles of dignity of the person, solidarity and common good in particular.<\/p>\n“Today the Church offers all its inheritance of social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution and the developments of artificial intelligence, which pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work”<\/em>added the Pope, elected on the second day of the Cardinals Conclave.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> “Barely elected, L\u00e9on XIV pronounces words to the antipodes of the avenging spirit which seems to have seized the United States” <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n“Courageous and confident dialogue with the contemporary world”<\/h2>\n Evoking the “Total dedication style in service”<\/em> From his predecessor, Fran\u00e7ois, he launched to the cardinals, responsible for assisting him in his government: \u201cLet us collect this precious heritage and set off again, animated by the same hope which is born from faith. \u00bb\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\nL\u00e9on XIV also recalled a series of“Fundamental aspects”<\/em> content, according to him, in apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium<\/em>pronounced by Fran\u00e7ois in November 2013, a few months after his election. The pope, who also took the nationality of Peru where he spent more than half of his missionary life, has listed “Courageous and confident dialogue with the contemporary world”<\/em>,, “Affective attention to the smallest and the left-handed”<\/em>,, “Missionary conversion”<\/em> And “Growth in collegiality and synodality”<\/em> (that is, the involvement of the actors of the Church at all levels). Leon XIV also considered that the Pope “Is a humble servant of God and his brothers, and nothing else”<\/em>.<\/p>\n“I would like us to renew together, today, our full adhesion to the path that the Universal Church has been following for decades in the wake of the Vatican Council II”<\/em>who reformed the Catholic Church in the 1960s, he added.<\/p>\nSunday, L\u00e9on XIV will recite the first Sunday prayer of his pontificate, addressing the crowd of the Balcony of the Saint-Pierre Basilica for a Regina Caeli <\/em>which should attract thousands of tourists and faithful.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> The new pope in the footsteps of Leon XIII, father of the social doctrine of the Church <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n The world with AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope L\u00e9on XIV during a meeting with the cardinals, at the Vatican, Saturday May 10, 2025. 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