There can be no doubt that the world’s problems are many and it is easy to become disheartened. But Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas reminds us that the answers to all these huge challenges lies with all of us: with our unique talents, skills and hearts. Let us offer them to God’s glory and to the building of a kingdom founded on love, compassion and inclusion here on earth.

‘No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing, just as no one is so weak that they cannot play their part, for “power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). All are given their own section of the wall: scientists and researchers, entrepreneurs and workers, educators and legislators, civil society, popular movements and faith communities. This is the logic of subsidiarity, which values the cooperation between generations, peoples, disciplines and cultures as the best way for fostering stability, prosperity and peace.’ – Magnifica Humanitas