Pope Leo XIV

Fonctions

1. 2001 – 2013Prior General, Order of Saint AugustineSource →
2. 2015 – 2023Bishop of Chiclayo, Catholic Church, PeruSource →
3. 2023 – 2025Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Holy SeeSource →
4. 8 mai 2025 – aujourd’huiPope, Catholic ChurchElected 8 May 2025; the first pope from the United States.Source →

Au registre

1. 25 sept. 2026 · Discours · Palais de l'Élysée, Paris

   Pour ne pas perdre notre humanité au milieu du “paradis de machines” qui envahissent et conditionnent notre quotidien, il est urgent de former les esprits à un discernement éthique, capable de voir ce qui est moralement bon.

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   Delivered in French before President Macron on the first day of his apostolic visit; the Holy See had not published the address on vatican.va when this entry was written, and Aleteia prints it in full. AFP's wire copies render the inner quotation with plus signs (+paradis de machines+), which is a transmission convention and not the printed text; the phrase is borrowed from Georges Bernanos.

   Laïcité, fin de vie, éducation… le vigoureux discours de Léon XIV à l'Élysée →

2. 21 août 2026 · Discours · International Catholic Legislators Network, Clementine Hall, Vatican

   We must remain vigilant in this regard, lest innovation become another vehicle for ideological or economic colonialism.

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   Added that AI must never reduce "persons and relationships to data and simulations".

   To Participants in the Meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network →

3. 25 mai 2026 · Discours · Presentation of Magnifica Humanitas, Synod Hall, Vatican

   Artificial intelligence now demands to be 'disarmed,' freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death.

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   Also said "When technology weakens our critical sense, peace itself is at risk."

   Presentation and promulgation of the Encyclical Letter “Magnifica humanitas” →

4. 15 mai 2026 · Lettre ouverte · Holy See

   technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it

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   Paragraph 9 of his first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI; paragraph 5 notes the main drivers of development are private parties with capacity surpassing many governments.

   Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas →

5. 17 juin 2025 · Déclaration · Second Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Corporate Governance, Rome

   All of us, I am sure, are concerned for children and young people, and the possible consequences of the use of AI on their intellectual and neurological development.

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   Message of the Holy Father to participants in the Second Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Corporate Governance →

6. 10 mai 2025 · Discours · Address to the College of Cardinals, Vatican

   In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.

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   Explaining why he took the name Leo, after Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum.

   Address of the Holy Father Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals →