US EditionPolitical Authority Should Embody Humility, Honesty, Sharing, Pope Says
Pope Leo highlighted social issues including a demographic crisis and rising gambling addiction, urging Italian mayors to listen to vulnerable groups and foster community bonds.
- On Dec. 29, Pope Leo XIV met mayors from the National Association of Italian Municipalities at the Vatican, saying all power must be built on responsibility and service.
- Facing mounting local problems, Italian towns and cities confront demographic crisis, family struggles, youth hardship, elderly isolation, poverty, pollution and social conflicts, and Pope Leo warned democracy atrophies without listening to the poor.
- Highlighting social harms, Pope Leo noted a major increase in gambling in recent years that has ruined many families, citing a Caritas report and urging promotion of authentically human relationships.
- He urged ANCI mayors to become masters of dedication to the common good and to foster a social alliance for hope, encouraging courage to plan the best future from integral human promotion.
- Invoking Don Primo Mazzolari, 20th-century Italian Catholic priest and social activist, Pope Leo said Italy needs not only infrastructure but also a way of coming together as brothers and sisters.
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Political authority should embody humility, honesty, sharing, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — All power must be built on responsibility and service, Pope Leo XIV told local government leaders. “For any authority to be able to express these characteristics, it is necessary to embody the virtues of humility, honesty and sharing,” as well as to listen to others, he said during an audience at the Vatican Dec. 29 with members of the National Association of Italian Municipalities. “Indeed, it is a matter of paying attentio…
Pope Leon of XIV warned for months, during an audition with the Italian National Association of Municipalities (ANCI), about "strong proliferation" of gambling and gambling, stressing that they destroy "many families", transmits...
Pope Leo XIV has warned this Monday (29.12.25) of the "strong increase" of gambling, in an audience in the Vatican with the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI). "Unfortunately our cities know forms of marginality, violence and loneliness that demand to be faced. I would like to point out in particular the plague of gambling [...] The entry Lion XIV cries out against the "plague" of gambling was first published in Information Fo…
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