Catholics Must Engage with Modern Culture, Not Reject It, Pope Says
The pope said the Incarnation shows faith can enrich every culture and urged a unity of knowledge in education and belief.
- Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis series on the Second Vatican Council's Gaudium et Spes during his Wednesday General Audience in St. Peter's Square, reflecting on faith and culture.
- The Pope explained that the relationship between faith and culture finds its primary foundation in the Incarnation, where the divine Word became flesh to dwell among humanity.
- Medieval universities helped form Western civilization, Pope Leo noted, while Christians must ensure human and scientific knowledge advances alongside their faith.
- In every age, the Catholic Church has established educational institutions to accompany the Gospel, promoting culture as a service to humanity and a good in itself.
- The Pope urged the Church to cultivate a fruitful integration of all forms of knowledge, expressing the faith with a positive outlook on history and the world.
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Catholics must engage with modern culture, not reject it, pope says
Catholics must not live their faith in opposition or "hostility" toward modern culture, Pope Leo XIV said, emphasizing that integrating faith and culture is essential to living out the Christian vocation and sharing the Gospel with others.
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Pope Leo XIV: Live the Faith Without ‘Hostility Towards the World’
The Pontiff emphasized that a responsible synthesis between faith and culture is 'an essential requirement for bearing witness to the faith.'
Since the 19th century, modern culture and Christian faith have often been seen as a contrast. Pope Leo considers this to be fundamentally false. It is based on the Second Vatican Council. Faith and culture can enrich one another.
* From the front page of the daily newspaper "L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO" * //// In dialogue with the world to be credible witnesses Leo XIV continues his reflections on the conciliar documents and dwells on the part of the "Gaudium et spes" dedicated to the relationship between faith and culture Reaching the person in his environment of life, made of human words, [...]
Pope Leo XIV points out in catechesis that synthesis between faith and culture is a necessary condition for persevering in the Christian vocation and giving credible witness to the world.
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