Pope: ‘We live in an age where people are considered expendable’

Rome, 11 October (LaPresse) – ‘In an age in which so many things, and even people themselves, are considered expendable, and in which the proliferation of technological advances seems to obscure more transcendent problems, philosophy has much to question and much to offer in the dialogue between faith and reason, between the Church and the world.’ Pope Leo XIV wrote this in a message sent on the occasion of the International Philosophy Congress on the theme “Contributions to cultures: philosophy, Christianity and Latin America”. In the text, the Pontiff emphasises: ‘The Christian thinker is called to be a living reminder of the authentic philosophical vocation as an honest and persevering search for Wisdom.’