Pope Leo XIV Denounces New Injustices, Inequality

Meeting participants of the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV invoked Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum to denounce “new” injustices. He put the poor at the center, urging movements born on the peripheries to act with love and confront inequality, exclusion, and “bad management.” He cited the climate crisis, social media’s consumerist lure, addictive gambling platforms, a body-obsessed pharma culture, and harms tied to coltan and lithium extraction, and urged humane migration policies. He thanked popular movements, lamented weakened unions, and affirmed housing, work, and land as sacred rights: “I am with you.”