At the Angelus, the pontiff said Christ sees the wounds of war, broken families, and young people misled by false ideals.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that when the Gospel is proclaimed and lived out, evil gives way before the power of the risen Christ.
Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace for the June 14 Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope reflected on the day’s Gospel from Matthew, saying it “brings us a great gift, for it draws all who hear it into Jesus’ gaze.”
“It is a story that bears witness to the attentiveness of this gaze, as well as telling us what the Lord sees,” Pope Leo said, citing the passage in which Christ, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless.”
“Having become our brother, the Son of God looks at the people, he looks at humanity: he sees the oppression that burdens and the violence that causes strength to fade,” the Pope said.
Christ, he continued, also sees the wounds of the contemporary world.
“He sees the wounds of war and the emptiness of consumerism. He sees faces reduced to masks,
