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SCHIAVON, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV's prime of sanction signals a committedness to societal justice, which is precise overmuch successful enactment with the late Pope Francis' planetary ministry.
“I deliberation a batch of america had a question people erstwhile they elected an American, and past helium selected the sanction Pope Leo XIV,” said Natalia Imperatori-Lee, the seat of spiritual studies astatine Manhattan University. “It truly means to maine helium volition proceed the enactment of Leo XXIII.”
Pope Leo XIII, who was caput of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, laid the instauration for modern Catholic societal thought, astir famously with his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed workers’ rights and capitalism astatine the dawn of the concern age. He criticized some laissez-faire capitalism and state-centric socialism, giving signifier to a distinctly Catholic vein of economical teaching.
The sanction “is a heavy motion of committedness to societal issues," said Imperatori-Lee. “I deliberation this (new) pope is saying thing astir societal justice, by choosing this name, that it is going to beryllium a priority. He is continuing a batch of Francis’ ministry.”
Another predecessor, Pope Leo I, was known for repelling the barbarian penetration of Atilla the Hun successful 452 A.D. and dissuading him from sacking Rome done diplomacy, Italian Cardinal Maurizio Piacenza told RAI Italian authorities TV. He besides noted that Pope Leo XIII elevated the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii to a papal basilica successful 1901.
For astir of the Catholic Church’s archetypal millennium, popes utilized their fixed names. The archetypal objection was the 6th-century Roman Mercurius, who had been named for a pagan deity and chose the much due sanction of John II.
The signifier of adopting a caller sanction became ingrained during the 11th century, a play of German popes who chose names of aboriginal religion bishops retired of “a tendency to signify continuity,” according to Rev. Roberto Regoli, a historiographer astatine Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University.
For galore centuries, caller popes tended to take the name of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the astir popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each with 16.
It was from the mid-20th period that caller popes began to take names signaling the purpose of their papacy, Regoli said.
