Pope Leo XIV Opens Consistory, Asks Cardinals to Be ‘Builders of Christ’s Communion’
- On Friday, June 26, 2026, Pope Leo XIV opened the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate at the Vatican, urging cardinals to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church today.
- Cardinals from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas traveled to Rome for the two-day meeting to discuss evangelization, synodality, and the Pope's recent encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on artificial intelligence.
- Out of 241 current members of the College of Cardinals, 178 participated in the consistory, where Archbishop Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, Colombia, moderated the first session with working groups divided between electors and Roman Curia members.
- Pope Leo clarified that synodality helps "understand more deeply the meaning of authority itself," while emphasizing his ministry "cannot be carried out alone" and requesting frank counsel from the cardinals.
- Sessions continuing through Saturday evening will address the Church's contribution to the common good and implementation of outcomes from the Synod on Synodality, with cardinals urged to "ask for the gift of peace in unity.
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Via al secondo Consistory under the banner of collegiality: "We are human, not beasts"
The three Navarrese cardinals met again this Friday in the Vatican, at the beginning of the second extraordinary consistory convened on the eve of the Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul by Pope Leo XIV. José Luis Lacunza, Celestino Aós and Francisco Javier Bustillo joined the rest of the College of Cardinals and heard the Pope’s first intervention. “I need his freedom, his frankness, and his loyalty,” he asked at the beginning of the meetings.
There is a passage from Pope Leo XIV's introduction to the Extraordinary Consistory of June 26-27, pronounced in the middle of his speech, almost imperceptibly, but which deserves to be emphasized in order to understand the scope of the two days of the Catholic Church: "We are not here to reflect on internal life." The sentence comes after the illustration of the four themes offered to the 18 discussion groups and after the morning homily in whi…
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ACI AfricaPope Leo XIV defends synodal consistory as path to ‘grow in communion’
Acknowledging reservations among some cardinals, the pope urged confidence in the format in his opening address, and asked that they offer him their “strong, explicit and public” support. [...]
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