Vatican City (AP) – Pope Leo XIV Rock stars were welcomed at the Vatican Catholic influencer festival on Tuesday – they welcome to preach and teach faith using priests, nuns and social media presences. artificial intelligence.
The first American popes of history were rioted by hundreds of influencers, and their phones were rolled up high to stream the encounter when they arrived at St. Peter’s Cathedral after a special mass. Week Jubilee for Young People It will culminate with all-nighters and masses this weekend in the vast fields of Rome’s suburbs.
Leo played games for selfies, thanking young people for using digital platforms to spread their faith. However, he warned them of ignoring relationships in clicks and pursuits of followers, and not to fall prey to the “frivolity” of fake news and online encounters.
“It’s not just about generating content, it’s about encounters between the minds,” Leo said in his speech, showing how easy it is to use from Italian to Spanish. “Be a communion agent who can break down the logic of division and polarization, the logic of individualism and egocentricity.”
“It’s up to us to ensure that this culture remains human,” he said. “Our mission – your mission – is to nurture and bring together a Christian humanistic culture,” he calls the only truly important network of friendship, love and “the network of God.”
Warnings to go out
Over the past two days, the Vatican’s message to young influencers is not only appreciating social media evangelism, but also a warning that they will not allow posts to go out or ignore the human dimension of every encounter.
For Leo, the problem is especially heartfelt. The threat to humanity raised by AI It will become his Pope’s priorities.
Rev. David McCallum, an American Jesuit who led the Leadership Development Program and spoke with influencers at Monday’s meeting, instructed the audience to actually talk to the people next door for up to 10 minutes, and held regular breaks at his presentation.
Cardinal Antonio Tagle, head of the Vatican’s Evangelization Office, urged influencers to avoid false ads, coercion, or brainwashing in their posts, or to use the platform to make money. He noted that he himself was a victim of fake video advertising arthritis medication.
“Brothers and sisters, fat,” Tugle told his Homily influencer at Mass Tuesday.
Rome’s Mini World Youth Day
Tuesday began with a group of influencers and young pilgrims passing through the Holy Door of the Basilica, a rite of passage for an estimated 32 million people taking part in the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations in 2025. This week, downtown Rome flocked to the energetic, singing and dancing masses of teenage Catholic couts, churches and Catholic school groups.
It all had the atmosphere of Scaled World Youth Day, the one three-year Catholic Woodstock Festival launched by St. John Paul II.
The latest in Lisbon, Portugal It’s gone viral He also happens to be a DJ thanks to Pastor Gilherme Peisoto, a priest in a village in northern Portugal. He will be in Rome this week, but it is not clear whether he will reprise his now-famous set, which awakened the young people before Pope Francis’ final Mass in Lisbon.
In it, when he was jammed to house music behind his console with a full office collar, Peisoto sprites both Lisbon’s claim that he had a room of “todos, todos, todos” and “todos” to the youth of Saint John Paul II.
That mantra has become modest in youth jubilee this year. #todostodostodos is used throughout the platform by pilgrims posting about their time in Rome.
Pablo Richelli, who founded the Catholic Mass Times app, has provided locations and times to Catholic liturgies around the world, has registered 2 million downloads and has sincerely listened to both Leo’s message of unity and the enthusiasm of social media-savvy Catholics like him.
“I was particularly moved to meet many fellow Catholic influencers in person and pray with others who share the same passion for spreading the joy of God’s love,” he said after Mass Tuesday.
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