Pope Leo This statement came during a meeting with the ambassadors who begin their mission to the Holy See, and reinforces the Supreme Pontiff’s alignment with his predecessor, Pope Francis, in defending the weak.
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Addressing the ambassadors of Uzbekistan, Moldova, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Liberia, Thailand, Lesotho, South Africa, Fiji, Micronesia, Latvia and Finland, Leo
It is one of the first times that the American Pontiff, who has Peruvian citizenship, has expressed his opinion so clearly since his election last May to lead the Catholic Church, after the death of Pope Francis.
The Holy See’s diplomacy “is constantly directed at the service of humanity, essentially by appealing to consciences and remaining attentive to the voice of the poor and people in fragile or marginalized situations,” the Pope said.
By highlighting inequality, Leo XIV follows in the line of his Argentine predecessor in terms of priorities: Francisco was a firm defender of the rights of migrants and other vulnerable populations.
The spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics denounced the treatment of immigrants in the United States under the presidency of Donald Trump, which he described last month as “deeply disrespectful.”
Pope Leo XIV in Türkiye
Furthermore, Leo
He considered that “their lives and martyrdom today can be a call to unity and mission for the universal Church.”
— In a time of diverse sensibilities, where it is easy to fall into dualisms or sterile polemics, the blessed people of Chibute remind us that God is able to unite what our human logic tends to separate.