Pro-Family Pope?

 Pope Leo Backs Populist Pro-Family Policies to Promote ‘Stable Union Between a Man and a Woman’.

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Kurt Zindulka

17 May 2025405

6:40

In an address to members of the Vatican’s Diplomatic Corps, Pope Leo XIV stressed the fundamental importance of the union between men and women as the bedrock of civilisation. The Pontiff argued that governments should invest in family formation to foster more “harmonious and peaceful” civil societies, echoing the message of populist leaders like Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and Vice President JD Vance.

In his address Friday to foreign diplomats accredited to the Holy See, Pope Leo XIV harkened back to his predecessor and namesake Leo XIII’s famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (or “On New Things) regarding the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour.

Rerum Novarum - Papal Encyclicals To Our Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries of Places having ...

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