Pope Leo XIV > Quotes

“Scientific discoveries are talents entrusted to humanity so that they may bear fruit (cf. Mt. 25:14-30). Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide, exclude and generate new forms of injustice.”
― Pope Leo XIV

“Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.”
― Pope Leo XIV

“When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“The expression “more than human” is not an exclusive domain of technological promise... an infinite disparity separates our finite nature from the life of God. Nevertheless, it remains possible to enter into the heart of that inexhaustible life, even as we journey through the limitations of this world. The one who makes this passage possible can only be the Eternal One who gives of himself. Indeed, it is God himself who overcomes the “infinite” disproportion. In him, the re-creation of the human person happens. “If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new” ( 2 Cor 5:17).”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

“Each generation inherits the task of shaping its own era”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

“On attribue à saint Jean Chrysostome l’expression : « L’aumône est l’aile de la prière. Si donc tu ne donnes pas une aile à ta prière, elle ne vole pas ». Et saint Grégoire de Nazianze concluait l’un de ses célèbres discours par ces mots : « Si donc vous m’écoutez, serviteurs du Christ, frères et cohéritiers, pendant qu’il en est encore temps, visitons le Christ, soignons le Christ, nourrissons le Christ, habillons le Christ, accueillons le Christ, honorons le Christ, non seulement avec une table, comme certains, avec des onguents, comme Marie, avec un tombeau, comme Joseph d’Arimathie, par des rites funéraires, comme Nicodème, qui n’aimait le Christ qu’à moitié, par l’or, l’encens et la myrrhe, comme les mages, mais puisque le Maître de tout veut la miséricorde et non le sacrifce [...], ofrons-la-lui dans les pauvres, afin qu’à notre départ d’ici, ils nous accueillent dans les tentes éternelles »”
― Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te: Apostolic Exhortation on Love for the Poor

“«No nos atañe a nosotros dominar todas las mareas del mundo”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas: Sobre la custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial

“between the ecclesial community and the political community”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“Therefore, the primary choice is not between a “yes” or “no” to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem; between a power that claims to dominate the heavens and a people who work together in the presence of God to rebuild the walls of fraternal coexistence.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“technology is not simply a tool. When it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“the most extraordinary scientific progress, the most astounding technical feats and the most amazing economic growth, unless accompanied by authentic moral and social progress, will in the long run go against man.”121 For”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“Peace is neither a naive hope nor merely an absence of war; instead, it is always possible as a fruit of justice and charity.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

“Technology has the power to heal”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“It is important to ensure that this growth in appreciation of human dignity is not obscured by the pressure of new ideologies or very powerful interests in today’s world. Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to
everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

“Through the Lord’s closeness, the gift of peace enters into the world in a paradoxical way. It does so through the power to become children of God, and is awakened when we allow ourselves to be moved by the tears of the little ones, the fragility of the elderly, the silence of victims and the struggle of those who fight against the evil they do not wish to commit.207 In this wounded yet beloved flesh, the Father shows us the true humanity of a life fulfilled through openness and communion, which leads us to desire that his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.208”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“and avoiding any form of paternalism that suffocates evangelical freedom. In practical terms”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“Contemporary man has not been trained to use power well.”120”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“The Blessed Virgin Mary not only teaches us to recognize God’s invisible work, but also directs our gaze to “the points at which humanity is broken and the world becomes distorted: the contrast between the humble and the powerful, the poor and the rich, the satiated and the hungry,” teaching us “to look at the world from a lower position: through the eyes of those who suffer rather than the mighty; to view history through the eyes of the little ones, rather than through the perspective of the powerful; to interpret the events of history from the viewpoint of the widow, the orphan, the stranger, the wounded child, the exile and the fugitive.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“When a city is built on pride and the claim to self-sufficiency, communication breaks down, languages are confused and people no longer understand each other. The result is not unity, but dispersion.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“128. Cuando aceptamos esta posibilidad de trascendernos a nosotros mismos con la gracia de Dios no renegamos de nosotros mismos, no nos volvemos menos humanos. Por el contrario, como explicaba el Papa Francisco, «llegamos a ser plenamente humanos cuando somos más que humanos, cuando le permitimos a Dios que nos lleve más allá de nosotros mismos para alcanzar nuestro ser más verdadero».137 Aquí se encuentra la diferencia radical respecto a los sueños prometeicos: lo que salva lo humano no es la autosuficiencia potenciada, sino una relación que libera, una comunión que transforma. Frente a esto, una tecnología que clasifica y optimiza lo que ya existe puede ser, sin querer, un obstáculo al cambio y al crecimiento. Para un algoritmo, el error es algo que hay que corregir; para una persona, puede ser el inicio de un cambio profundo. El futuro de una persona no es calculable, sino que está confiado a su libertad —elevada por la inagotable”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas: Sobre la custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial

“Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation.”
― Pope Leo XIV

“En la misma línea, he reiterado que la Iglesia «no quiere levantar la bandera de la posesión de la verdad»,17 porque la verdad no es un territorio que hay que defender, sino un bien que hay que compartir.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas: Sobre la custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial

“True progress always stems from a heart open to others”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas (Annotated) with Rerum novarum: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“but without permanently supplanting the responsibilities of intermediary organizations and social institutions.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“L’amour chrétien brise toutes les barrières, rapproche ceux qui sont éloignés, unit les étrangers, rend familiers les ennemis, franchit des abîmes humainement insurmontables, pénètre dans les replis les plus cachés de la société. De par sa nature, l’amour chrétien est prophétique, il accomplit même des miracles, il n’a pas de limites : il est pour l’impossible. L’amour est avant tout une façon de concevoir la vie, une façon de la vivre. Eh bien, une Église qui ne met pas de limites à l’amour, qui ne connaît pas d’ennemis à combattre, mais seulement des hommes et des femmes à aimer, est l’Église dont le monde a besoin aujourd’hui. Que ce soit par votre travail, votre lutte pour changer les structures sociales injustes, ou encore par ce geste d’aide simple, très personnel et proche, il sera possible pour ce pauvre de sentir que les paroles de Jésus s’adressent à lui : « Je t’ai aimé » (Apocalypse 3:9).”
― Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te: Apostolic Exhortation on Love for the Poor

“La tecnología puede curar, conectar, educar, cuidar la Casa común; pero también puede dividir, descartar, generar nuevas injusticias. En abstracto, esta, en sí misma, no es una solución a los problemas de la humanidad, como tampoco es un mal en sí; pero, concretamente, no es neutral, porque toma el rostro de quien la concibe, la financia, la regula, la utiliza.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas: Sobre la custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial

“San Agustín describe la historia humana como un lugar de lucha entre dos amores, que han construido dos modos de habitar el mundo y de convivir, dos “ciudades”: por un lado, el amor a Dios y al prójimo; por otro, únicamente el amor a sí mismo. «Dos amores han dado origen a dos ciudades: el amor de sí mismo hasta el desprecio de Dios, la terrena; y el amor de Dios hasta el desprecio de sí, la celestial».139 Como en toda la historia humana, también hoy estos dos amores luchan en nuestro corazón por el predominio. El tiempo de la IA no escapa a esta regla: la construcción de Babel o la de Jerusalén comienza en cada uno de nosotros.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas: Sobre la custodia de la persona humana en el tiempo de la inteligencia artificial

“This is the logic of subsidiarity, which values the cooperation between generations, peoples, disciplines and cultures as the best way for fostering stability, prosperity and peace.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“Having a personal mobile device at too early an age and using it without adult supervision can exacerbate young people’s vulnerabilities”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

“Humanity”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas : On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence