Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on October 8 at St. Peter’s Basilica for the inauguration of the academic year of the Pontifical Universities of Rome, delivering a homily that ranged from St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians to artificial intelligence, from the fragmentation of knowledge to the importance of friendship, from Nehemiah’s construction site to the world seated in a Roman classroom. It is, one would dare saying, one of the most theologically substantive addresses of his pontificate.  The homily opened with Paul’s worried letter to the Galatians — a community that had been unsettled by “false teachers who exploit the religious sentiments of many believers for their own interests, often pushing them to radicalize certain aspects of the teaching they have received at the expense of the whole.” Leo easily drew the parallel to the present. “There is no shortage of false teachers” in every age, he said — and the antidote is the Read More…

Leo XIV to theology students: “Return to the heart”