Pope Leo XIV says free speech is a "precious gift"

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Pope Leo XIV calls for bid successful Ukraine, Gaza

Pope Leo XIV calls for bid successful Ukraine, ceasefire successful Gaza successful archetypal Sunday address 01:30

Pope Leo XIV called escaped code and the property a "precious gift" arsenic helium asked for the merchandise of imprisoned journalists. He made the comments during an assemblage with immoderate of the 6,000 journalists from astir the satellite who descended connected Rome implicit the past week to screen his predetermination arsenic the archetypal U.S.-born pontiff.

Leo received a lasting ovation arsenic helium entered the Vatican auditorium for his archetypal gathering with representatives of the wide public.

Pope Leo XIV attends an assemblage to journalists successful Vatican

The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, who was born successful Chicago, called for journalists to usage words of peace, to cull warfare and to springiness a dependable to the voiceless.

"The religion recognizes successful these witnesses – I americium reasoning of those who study connected warfare adjacent astatine the outgo of their lives – the tribunal of those who support dignity, justness and the close of radical to beryllium informed, due to the fact that lone informed individuals tin marque escaped choices," Leo said. "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience. Of nations and the planetary community, calling connected each of america to safeguard the precious acquisition of escaped code and of the press."

Leo opened the gathering with a fewer words successful English, joking that if the assemblage was inactive awake and applauding astatine the end, it mattered much than the ovation that greeted him.

Turning to Italian, helium thanked the journalists for their enactment covering the papal modulation and urged them to usage words of peace.

"Peace begins with each 1 of us: successful the mode we look astatine others, perceive to others and talk astir others," helium said. "In this sense, the mode we pass is of cardinal importance: We indispensable accidental 'no' to the warfare of words and images, we indispensable cull the paradigm of war."

Journalists who Leo greeted aft his little code shared immoderate of the fewer words they exchanged with him, including hints that Vatican plans are going up for Leo to question to Turkey to commemorate an important lawsuit successful Catholic-Orthodox relations: the 1,700th day of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity's archetypal ecumenical council.

In his archetypal Sunday address, Leo called for a conscionable and lasting bid successful Ukraine and an contiguous ceasefire and the merchandise of hostages successful Gaza.

"I, too, code the world's large powers by repeating the ever-present telephone 'never again war,'" Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica to an estimated 100,000 radical below.

Leo, who was chosen Thursday to go the adjacent pontiff, volition beryllium inaugurated astatine a Mass successful St. Peter's Square this coming Sunday.