The newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost from the USA, will be released on May 8, 2025 on the balcony of the basilica of St. Peter's Basilica.
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Pope Leo XIV said on Saturday that he had partially selected his papal name to commemorate Pope Leo XIII for his commitment to social issues and employee rights during the industrial revolution.
Leo said that due to the rise of artificial intelligence, the world is now exposed to new hurdles to workers and humanity in the broader sense.
“In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to a different industrial revolution and the developments in the field of artificial intelligence, the new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work,” said the American Pope, who was known on Thursday before his choice by a Vatican conversion as Cardinal Robert Prevost.
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Leo's statements provided one of the earliest indications of his vision for leadership and priorities as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
During his first meeting with Cardinals, Leo also suggested that he would follow the late Pope Francis in his commitment to social justice.
“It was clearly seen in the example of so many of my predecessors and most recently by Pope Francis himself with his example of the full commitment to the service and the sober simplicity of life, his abandonment to God during his service and his relaxed trust at the moment of his return to the father's house,” he said.
Francis, who was a Pope for 12 years, often received criticized conservative cardinals, who said that he had watered down the teaching of the Church in questions such as LGBT Catholics and women's leadership.
Leo XIII., Some of the inspiration for the name of the new Pope, was elected in 1878. He was an outstanding personality in the social teaching of the Catholic Church, especially about the rights of the workers and the working class.
Leo is the first American Pope of the Catholic Church.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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