New pope shares ideas on homosexual marriage, abortion

LiveNOW 1-on-1 with the brother of Pope Leo XIV

Louis Prevost, the eldest brother of Pope Leo XIV, joins LiveNOW’s Andrew Craft to speak in regards to the whirlwind it has been for the reason that finish of the conclave. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, spent his youth in Chicago earlier than spending years as a missionary in Peru. Louis stated he talks to his brother two to a few occasions per week and tells us the brand new pope is a number one determine not simply to his household, however now your entire world. Pope Leo XIV is the primary American-born pope. He spoke to the media for the primary time Monday in Vatican Metropolis. He shall be inaugurated on Sunday, Could 18, in St. Peter’s Sq..

Pope Leo XIV outlined a transparent Catholic educating on marriage and abortion Friday, noting that household is predicated on “steady union between a person and a lady” and that the unborn get pleasure from dignity as God’s creatures.

Leo, the primary American pope, made the feedback in his first assembly with the Vatican diplomatic corps. The viewers was non-public, however the Vatican launched Leo’s ready textual content and that of the dean of the diplomatic corps. The assembly is among the necessities after a conclave, permitting a brand new pope to greet representatives of world governments forward of his formal set up Mass this Sunday. 

What else did Leo say? 

Leo, a member of the Augustinian non secular order, additionally referred to as for reviving multilateral diplomacy and selling dialogue between religions within the seek for peace. Vatican Metropolis is a sovereign state below worldwide legislation, has diplomatic relations with over 180 nations and enjoys observer standing on the United Nations.

What they’re saying:

Leo has emphasised peace as a precedence of his preach, from the primary phrases he uttered on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica after his Could 8 election, “Peace be with you all.”

Pope Leo XIV shakes the fingers and greets folks of the press after an viewers with hundreds of journalists and media employees on Could 12, 2025 at Paul VI Corridor in Vatican Metropolis, Vatican. (Picture by Christopher Furlong/Getty Photographs)

He insisted that peace is not simply the absence of battle however a “reward” that requires work, from an finish to the manufacturing of weapons to selecting phrases rigorously. 

“For phrases too, not solely weapons, can wound and even kill,” he stated. 

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He stated it was as much as governments to construct peaceable societies “above all by investing within the household, based upon the steady union between a person and a lady.”

“As well as, nobody is exempted from striving to make sure respect for the dignity of each particular person, particularly probably the most frail and weak, from the unborn to the aged, from the sick to the unemployed, residents and immigrants alike,” he stated.

Do Leo’s feedback differ from Pope Francis? 

Dig deeper:

Pope Francis strongly reaffirmed core Catholic educating opposing abortion and euthanasia, saying they had been proof of right now’s “throwaway tradition.” However he additionally made reaching out to LGBTQ+ Catholics an indicator, insisting they’re welcome within the church. He by no means modified church doctrine defining marriage as a union between man and girl and gay acts as “intrinsically disordered.”

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Because the then-head of the Augustinian order, Leo in 2012 criticized the “gay life-style” and the position of mass media in selling acceptance of same-sex relationships that conflicted with Catholic doctrine. A decade later, throughout Francis’ preach, he acknowledged Francis’ name for a extra inclusive church, and stated he didn’t need folks excluded simply on the premise of their life-style.