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Consistory: Third session upholds Gospel hope as antidote to individualism
During the third session of the Extraordinary Consistory, the Cardinals reflected on the Church’s mission to foster goodness and build up society.
Vatican News
The Holy See Press Office released details of the third session of the Extraordinary Consistory, held on Saturday morning in the Paul VI Hall.
The day began with Mass celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Meeting in the Paul VI Hall, Pope Leo XIV led the Cardinals in praying the Adsumus prayer.
Cardinal Protase Rugambwa, Archbishop of Tabora, Tanzania, moderated the morning session.
He thanked the College in the Pope’s name for its words of support for his appeals for peace, and urged them to make those appeals even more effective by taking responsibility for them in their dioceses and regions of origin, so that a choral appeal may rise up and give still greater strength to this common commitment.
Cardinal Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Johannesburg, Soth Africa, then took the floor for his introductory report on the theme “Building in the good: the worksites of our time.”
After a time of prayer and silence, Cardinal Rugambwa opened the group work, setting the return to plenary session, after the break, for 11:30 a.m.
The Pope, who was present for the beginning of the session, returned before the group reports.
Eleven groups reported in the Hall: the eight from the first set and three from the second.
A large number of the groups focused their reflection on a reading of the deep fractures of our time: among peoples and nations, within societies, and within families themselves; and on how these generate wounds, especially among the poorest, the weakest, young people who lack a sense of newness, and adults lacking the wisdom of years.
Many of the reports highlighted the danger posed by a lack of meaning, meaningful relationships, and identity, which pushes people toward a tribal attitude. All emphasized the role of an exaggerated individualism that leads to the illusion that others exist for our own success.
In this context, the challenge of artificial intelligence emerges as an anthropological dimension that must be examined by identifying shared human values.
These begin with the call to give names to living beings, and not to reduce them to numbers and statistics; to experience and accept the human sense of limits, which AI tends to deny; and to defend the dignity of work.
Within this framework, many groups spoke of the value of the common good as something difficult to embrace and understand, and which politics often does not seek. They noted how it requires a language of the heart in order to overcome conformism, corruption, and the sense of impossibility generated by the awareness that the property and resources needed to achieve it are in the hands of a few.
The sense of the common good, numerous groups affirmed, has its origin in faith: faith in God and in the transcendent dimension present in every person, which leads human beings to go beyond every frontier, beginning with the one that takes them beyond themselves; to live solidarity with the poor as a response to individualism; to live catholicity fully; to build gratuitous relationships, not institutions, at every level; and to seek a language capable of engaging with settings distant from the Christian faith.
In this regard, the role of politics is essential, as is the commitment of ecclesial institutions to the formation of future public servants, so that the Church’s social doctrine may be known and studied as a medicine for divisions.
The antidote to individualism and to fractures, many groups agreed, is the Gospel: a Church that offers a sense of belonging, that is able to soothe the wounds of our time, and that is renewed while avoiding forms of integralism and polarization; a Church that makes visible its Samaritan face, with Christians who are not spectators of social ruin, but wise architects who rebuild the city of all.
In this framework, one sign of hope is the recognition that the same challenges are being faced in many areas and in many parts of the world, and that communion with Christ makes one less concerned about what others think.
In this sense, various groups emphasized the value of synodality as a path of listening and dialogue, and also of ecclesial responsibility.
At the end of the reports, time was given for interventions by several Cardinals, who took up the themes of the session in more personal terms. Others expressed gratitude to the Pope for his recent apostolic journeys and his commitment to peace.
The session ended at 12:45 p.m. with the Angelus prayer, led by the Holy Father.
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