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The statement, issued jointly with the Ombudsman’s Office of Bolivia, warned that “violence only generates more violence and that the social wounds that are opening will take decades to heal,” according to a summary published by the bishops’ conference.

In a message to the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Leo XIV called for stronger data privacy protections in health care.

“The Pope makes this clear in the first chapter, where he offers a brilliant review of the initiatives of the Popes since Leo XIII. Pope Leo XIV is clear that this is Church doctrine and not simply a body of teaching that Catholics may choose to accept or ignore,” Cardinal Cupich told Vatican News.

The prelate also said that the encyclical’s “principal contribution comes in the Holy Father’s challenge to humanity to make a choice: either to build the new Jerusalem or another Tower of Babel.”

Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV spoke this morning on “Rite, sign, and symbol“ (video).

Pope Leo XIV’s message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer for Creation (background) will highlight the relation between war and environmental degradation, according to an announcement from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Pope Leo XIV told Catholic university presidents and rectors this morning that their institutions should be places where students encounter Jesus Christ and sound doctrine.