Pope Leo Urges Students to ‘Not Settle for Fads’

‘Don’t let the algorithm write your story,’ Pope Leo XIV exhorts young people

“Use technology wisely, but don’t let technology use you,” Pope Leo XIV said during his address to hundreds of university students gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 30, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 30, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged young people to cultivate their “interior life” and to listen to their restlessness without “fleeing from it” or “filling it” with things that don’t satisfy, les…

‘Don’t Let the Algorithm Write Your Story,’ Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Young People

“Use technology wisely, but don’t let technology use you,” Pope Leo XIV said during his address to hundreds of university students gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 30, 2025. Instead of looking at your phone, ‘look to the sky, to the heights,’ the Pope encourages at Jubilee event.

Pope to students: 'Do not let technology use you'

'We must learn to humanize digital, building it as a space of fraternity, creativity,' says Leo XIV - Anadolu Ajansı

Gen-Z should be known as Gen+ for what they can add to the world, pope says

Young people must take control of technology and "humanize" online spaces to be friendly, creative places -- not isolated echo chambers, forms of addiction or ways to escape, Pope Leo XIV said.

Pope Leo urges students to ‘not settle for fads’

While calling Artificial intelligence a great novelty — “one of the rerum novarum, or ‘new things,’ of our time” — Pope Leo XIV urged students to “not let technology use you.” He was speaking to participants of the Jubilee of the World of Education in the Paul  VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Oct. 30. The pontiff told the young people it is not enough to be ‘intelligent’ in virtual reality. “We must also treat one another humanely, nurturing …