Catholics must engage with modern culture, not reject it, Pope says

Catholics must engage with modern culture, not reject it, Pope says Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo with a young woman as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 13, 2026. Photo: OSV News /Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media.

Catholics must not live their faith in opposition or “hostility” toward modern culture, Pope Leo XIV said, emphasising that integrating faith and culture is essential to living out the Christian vocation and sharing the Gospel with others. “The authentic relationship between faith and culture is rooted in the Incarnation,” he said in his address to…

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