Elected to heal divisions, Pope Leo XIV may instead be remembered as the pontiff under whom the most serious Catholic schism since the Reformation emerged.
Christians must enter or re-enter public life as protagonists—artists, parents, teachers, lawmakers—who show, rather than merely assert, the excellence of the Christian vision and the love it conveys.
“The right to freedom of opinion, to freedom of conscience, to freedom of religion, and even to life is being restricted in the name of other so-called new rights,” the pontiff said.
In Pope Leo’s first New Year address as pontiff, he criticised the growing use of military force—warning that international law and diplomacy are being sidelined.
