Some people say that the new Pope, Leo XIV, is a generous. Others say that he is a conservative. Nevertheless, Vice President JD Vance put it best: “2025 is very difficult to fit the 2,000 -year -old organization in American politics.”
Yes, Christ’s wicker crosses the red-blue partial thunder. This is also true for the man who is the first American Pope of the church. Nevertheless, the platform is often asked to pass a decision on matters spreading in politics.
Such decisions begin with the pontapical name The New Kipers of the Keys; The name indicates to the anterior of the Pope that he wants to imitrse most. At the first address of the Cardinals’ college, the person born as Robert Prevost explained: “I chose to take the name Leo XIV. Mainly because Pope Leo XIII in its historical credibility Raram navaram The first addressed the social question in the context of the great industrial revolution. ,
That 14,000-word encyclopedia Raram navaram– The title is Latin for “New Things” – May 15, 1891 was published about 134 years ago, when the earlier Leo could see that industrialization societies had made a rift between the conflicts of labor vs. capital. On one hand, the fear of immersion of the worker and the fear of activist revolution on the other grew.
Pope Leo XIII (1810 – 1903), around 1880. (London Steeroscopic Company/Holton Archive/Getty Image)
In fact, before his ascension to the throne of St. Peter, Leo XIII was applying to the powers of his church Social harmony when he was the bishop of Perugia. In the words of a biography author:
When perugia bishop [from 1846 to 1877,] He advocated the establishment of the societies in his province, which treated to increase and benefit the physical condition of artisans and laborers. They urged banding together in the organizations of both employers and employees, with the aim of arranging satisfactory situations for both, and the enactment of laws favorable for their mental, moral and physical development.
Such efforts-A part-ethical grounds, known as social education, demanded a medium ground, which rejected socialism and communism firmly, but also opposed the lease-fire libeterianism. As this author remembered for Breetbart News, Leo XIII wanted Both Business and labor have rights and have to be treated properly.
Inspired by the reliable, late Catholics of Leo XIII, formed political parties worldwide, which often styled as Christian Democrats, demanding different and conflicting forces in a centralist program.
James Gibbons (1834–1921), Baltimore’s Archbishop and Senior Prelets in the US, proved to be an effective champion of this integrated vision; He defended the knights of the knights, an early union.
In the 20th century, the “activist priests” often stood with the organizers and other activists of the Sangh. The result was the emergence of an urban democratic party, focusing on heavy Catholic, wages, hours and job-protection blue-safety concerns.
The American priest waved the American flag as the newly chosen Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, St. Peter Basilica’s first arrival at Lodia.
The newly elected Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd on the Central Logi with St. Peter Square on 8 May 2025 in the Vatican City. (Francesco Sforza – Vatican Media/Getty Images)
In those days notable Democratic leaders were Al Smith, the Governor of New York and in 1928, the first Catholic to receive a lead-party nomination for the President. There was another Sen. Robert Wagner, also of New York; He was the lead author of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, so -called “Magna Carta of Labor.” And, of course, John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, was elected as the first Catholic President in 1960.
In general, these figures were economic liberal but social conservative. Most clearly, he never questioned the teaching of the Catholic Church on the sin of abortion. And to do anything with transgenderism, Fuhgeddaboutit. (In those days of meat-and-potato, no Democratic officer dreamed that transgenderism would be anything other than possible excuses to avoid military service, A la Corporal Klinger “M*A*S*H.” in TV Show
In addition, the old Catholic Democrats, such as Sen Pat Maccaran of Nevada, were strongly anti -communist. He saw what happened to his fellow believers behind Stalin’s Iron Curtain; The fate of Hungary’s Cardinal Josesef Minds was closely seen. Here at home, McAcaran and others worked to ensure that communist immigrants would never be allowed in the United States.
Nevertheless, by the 1970s, it was coming under a fierce attack from patriotic, united Catholicism new leftists. The Kaj came in 1972, when George McGawn (a Protestant) attended a platform focused on social issues for the President, expressing as “acid, abortion and amnesty”. McGawn lost the general election in a landslide, and still McGawnITES Captured the Democratic Party, marching to his current stance on abortion, immigration, and, of course, transgenderism.
In response, Catholic became more Republican. In 2024, most of them voted for Donald Trump, and if we examine the votes of those who often participate on a large scale, the Trump percentage becomes even greater.
Catholic nuns stand in front of the “Make America Great Again” sign, waiting for President Donald Trump’s arrival during a rally in Waterford, Michigan on 30 October 2020.
Nevertheless, whatever party they are in, they emphasize security for Catholic workers and their families. Happily, this is a message that most Republicans are embracing. Sen Jim Banks of Indiana recently underlined its view of the GOP alliance: “It is a multinational, union, Cross-board working class … You win on that agenda. , [emphasis added]
So, now Pope Leo XIV. In the same May 10 speech, he said that the time has come for the Roman Catholic Church to think about “another industrial revolution”, in particular, “Development in the field of artificial intelligence that creates new challenges to protect human dignity, justice and labor.”
We simply do not know what will be of all these technical changes – till the workplace, for politics, for social relations, for life. Nevertheless, Leo is ready to search for positive answers to the prayer; As he said, “The church offers everyone the treasure of his social teaching.” It is likely that we will see a new encyclopedia, Raram navaram For the 21st century, once again focused on defending human dignity in front of new things.
The Pope Leo XIV participates in an audience on May 17, 2025 in the Vatican, Vatican, along with members of the Sentisimus E Pro Pontiffis Foundation. (Vatican Media through Vatican Pool/Getty Image)
We can get a glimpse of that future encyclopedia in Leo XIV Vatican’s diplomatic core is known on Friday. “It is the responsibility of government leaders to work for the creation of a harmonious and peaceful citizen societies. It can be achieved above all by investing in the family, established on a stable association between a man and a woman, ‘a small but real society, and before all civil society’,” he quoted directly from his predecessor, ” Raram navaram,
Interestingly, another Pope Leo -Leo is known as the Great, which led the church from 440 to 461 AD – even defended human dignity. Subsequently, a pressure question was the inherent equality of faith; Great sermon as Leo:
No one is closed with this happiness; All share the same reason for being rejected. Our God, victorious over sin and death, no person free from sin, came to free all of us. Let the saint rejoice because he sees the palm of victory in his hand. The sinner is happy when he receives the offer of forgiveness. Let the fetish take courage as he is called for life. In the fullness of time, the God of God was chosen in a deep depth of the intellect, the son of God took himself to our normal humanity to reconcile with his creator.
At a time when slavery was common, it was a bold, even radical, claim – that All Christians of any station could find a respected place in the kingdom of God. (And only on 16 May, the new Pope confirmed traditional church teachings on human dignity: against The “throwing culture” of abortion and euthanasia, in favor of Marriage between a man and a woman.)
Pope Leo I, also known as St. Pop Lio the Great. (400-461 AD). (Print Collector/Getty Image)
After sixteen-seven years of the first Leo, Artificial Intelligence can make us rich and slaves-perhaps one or the other, perhaps both at the same time. Therefore, even non-Catholicists should appreciate that Leo XIV is calling his church to build a fort for an independent desire of faith-to find the path of salvation of each soul.
Will Leo XIV be as effective in advancing this human social vision in public class as Leo XIII?
We should expect. And, if we belong to a brain, we should pray.
On May 11, 2025, an American flag is waved in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in front of Pop Lio XIV.
