May 10, 2025

Pope Leo XIV said Saturday that he selected his papal name in part to commemorate Pope Leo XIII for his commitment to social issues and workers’ rights during the industrial revolution.

Leo said that the world now faces new hurdles to workers’ rights — and humanity more broadly — due to the rise of artificial intelligence.

“In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor,” said the American pontiff, who before his election by a Vatican conclave on Thursday was known as Cardinal Robert Prevost.

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