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In a video message to the faithful of Lampedusa, Pope Leo XIV praised the islanders’ hospitality to migrants and recalled Pope Francis’s 2013 apostolic journey there.

“Just as Pope Francis opposed the globalization of indifference with the culture of encounter, so today I would like for us, together, to begin to oppose the globalization of powerlessness with a culture of reconciliation,” Pope Leo said. “Today we must meet each other by healing our wounds, forgiving each other for the evil we have done and also that we have not done, but whose effects we bear.”

“So much fear, so many prejudices, so many great walls, even invisible ones, that are between us and between our peoples, as consequences of a wounded history,” the Pope continued, adding:

Evil is handed down from one generation to another, from one community to another. But good is also transmitted, and it knows that it is stronger! To practice it, to put it back into circulation, we must become experts in reconciliation.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for Evangelization, told participants in a Vatican conference, that “with dismay and fear, I note that the horizon of gift is slowly blurring.”

“It is being replaced by the horizon of productivity, success, meritocracy, and profit, which in itself is not negative, but is limited and limiting,” Cardinal Tagle said. In contrast, “from contemplation emerges an attitude of respect and reverence toward gifts. It motivates people to care for gifts, to develop them so that they become gifts for all.”

“In the horizon of gift, human beings discover their vocation to be confessors of faith in the Creator, contemplators of God’s marvelous works, and stewards and collaborators with the Creator in the care and development of creation for the benefit of all,” the Philippine prelate added.