00:16We go live with Pope Leo's 14th speech in this gathering with young people. Let's listen.
00:37Your Excellencies, distinguished academic leaders, respected political and civil authorities,
00:44esteemed professors, researchers, and administrative staff, and my most dear students, it is a great
00:54joy for me to return to Chiclayo and to meet here with you in the auditorium here in this
01:07parking lot in this area of the Catholic University. I first thank the Lord, the God of life, for the
01:14years that he allowed me to spend on mission in the service of the Peruvian people. I also
01:21thank all of you because during my years as Grand Chancellor of this institution, you helped
01:27me to understand that authority means service, that governance requires listening, and that
01:34education is a noble act of hope.
01:44This gathering invites us to recall the enduring legacy of the patron saint of this university,
01:53St. Turribius of Mangrovejo, a renowned jurist and archbishop of Lima, whose life was a shining
02:04example of wisdom, charity, and justice. The faith he preached and the knowledge he taught must
02:13continue to be the compass that guides research in these classrooms. A university, in particular
02:21a Catholic university, is a living community where the search for truth becomes an act of
02:29love and service to the great human family.
02:35With you young people as the protagonists, the quality of academic education is measured above
02:43all by its ability to shape you into wise, honest, and mature women and men. As you know, the world
02:54is undergoing complex cultural changes. In this context, the university is called to be a training
03:03ground for talent and a laboratory of meaning, a place where intelligence does not bow to utility but
03:15rather serves the truth faithfully. Above all, it is called to serve truth, with a capital T, who is Christ,
03:26the Savior of the world.
03:28In this way, the Catholic university works to foster the fruitful encounter between faith and reason, and between religion and
03:39science,
03:40by engaging in humble dialogue, rigorous, conducting rigorous inquiry, and always seeking the common good. This academic approach frees us
03:51from the temptation to produce only a skilled workforce for an exclusive and highly competitive market.
04:05The process that is indifferent to justice and the dignity of workers becomes, in fact, a mechanism of oppression and
04:12exclusion. The Catholic university, therefore, has a duty to remind the public and political spheres that science without a conscience
04:24ruins everyone's life.
04:30In the same way, technology without a soul does not improve life. A humanistic and Christian education, however, sustains our
04:39ability to forge lasting fraternal relationships, so that we may navigate the digital age by moving beyond mere connection toward
04:50authentic relationships that foster communion.
04:55Dear friends, technology is not always neutral.
04:58Dear friends, technology is not always neutral. At times, its forms bear the imprint, interests, and ambitions of those who
05:04design and control it. For this reason, it must be studied with a clear mind and a pure heart.
05:12The most deadly risk is that of submission to the technocratic paradigm, which reduces reality to material data, considering efficiency
05:24to be the supreme value. Both professors and students are called to exercise critical thinking.
05:34And I encourage you to exercise critical thinking. And I encourage you always to seek that wisdom which neither machines
05:39nor computer programs can possess. Only in this way will technological progress be at the service of our integral development,
05:49safeguarding the dignity of every person and promoting the common good.
05:56Faced with this mission. Faced with this mission, the example of St. Terribius of Mogrovejo highlights the way for us.
06:05In his time, when indigenous peoples were often subjected to exploitation and discrimination, he defended their human dignity with evangelical
06:18fervor.
06:24St. Terribius learned the languages of the peoples he served, proclaiming the gospel in their culture and writing a catechism
06:34for them, which was one of the first in the Americas to be written in indigenous languages.
06:39His pastoral work bears witness to how the logic of the incarnation continues to bear fruit in every time and
06:47place through the church's mission.
06:49St. Terribius' great cultural work in this part of the world continues to inspire us.
06:57Indeed, today the deserts are not only the arid expanses of Labayeque, which that Holy Shepherd crossed on horseback, but
07:07they are the new forms of moral and civic illiteracy that exclude the poor.
07:12A university modeled on his example is called to use scientific innovation to bridge social divides and heal society's wounds.
07:29Thus, dear professors and students, we now turn to reflect on a central issue in contemporary thought, the human limit,
07:40that is, the human being as limit.
07:47Today, the promises of transhumanism and post-humanism are multiplying.
07:53These are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate all disease and pain, as well as
08:01aging and even death itself.
08:04Precisely because scientific progress is a supreme achievement of human intelligence, it must not be confused with the privilege reserved
08:14for millionaires seeking immortality, while entire peoples suffer from poverty and oppression.
08:25In the face of this mirage, which promotes the illusion of human beings perfected by cybernetics and biotechnology, Christian anthropology
08:36reminds us that a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur.
08:51Indeed, limitations call us to solidarity and opens openness to the transcendent.
08:57While the myth of self-sufficiency traps us in selfishness and leads us to cast aside the weak, recognizing our
09:05fragility makes us attentive to the needs of all.
09:09St. Vivius of Mogrovejo experienced physical limits during his grueling journeys.
09:17He fell ill, suffered from exhaustion, and faced the misunderstanding of the powerful.
09:27Moreover, it was precisely through a life so sorely tested that he transformed the ecclesial and social history of an
09:35entire country.
09:36Today, it is up to us to follow his example.
09:45Dear young students, you are the natives of this new era.
09:49Embrace the opportunities it offers you.
09:52Contemplate them in the light of faith, which is a bright beacon in the confusion and darkness of loneliness, boredom
10:00and pain.
10:06Angela has told us this with great sincerity, showing that faith always gives hope, for it does not deceive like
10:15magic, which claims to make every problem disappear.
10:19A living relationship with God comforts us, gives meaning to our crosses, which the Lord Jesus carries with us.
10:27This is the way to live out faith as a virtue, that is, as a force that gives wisdom and
10:34strength, leading us to what is essential, as Adriano explained.
10:40Both prayer and study transform our minds to the point of changing our lives.
10:49Accepting the truth in becomes a conscious effort, and whether through prayer or study, reflection turns into action.
10:59Both become an opportunity to seek and discover joy at every stage of life.
11:08In this regard, Professor Guzman has shared with us a word that is full of meaning, sacrifice.
11:18In everyday language, this term implies renunciation, but above all it means to make sacred, and therefore is a gesture
11:35through which our entire existence, even that which the world discards, acquires value.
11:42United with the sacrifice of Christ, who reveals the true meaning of this experience, let us open our lives, with
11:49all their struggles and hopes, to God's work.
11:53He always transforms into good whatever we place in his fatherly hands.
12:00Dear professors and academic leaders, I encourage you to discover with wonder and passion that your work is a lofty
12:10expression,
12:11of intellectual charity.
12:13As you accompany these young people in their classes and research, offer each one a consistent witness through your lives.
12:25Be free thinkers, for whom truth takes precedence over opinion, and justice over self-interest.
12:34Together with your students, tenaciously seek wisdom, so that you may share it in your daily lives, among your colleagues,
12:44and within Peruvian society.
12:47As you cultivate your scientific expertise, translate it into works of social justice, especially for the benefit of the poorest,
12:56and in the care of creation.
13:00Which today is so wounded by profiteering that disregards the common good.
13:10Dear friends, I encourage you to move forward with renewed vigor in your educational endeavors.
13:15For this reason, I entrust you and your work to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, sedes sapientiae.
13:26May she who welcomed the eternal word into her womb teach you to journey through this time with courage and
13:35faith.
13:35May God bless you always.
13:57And that was Pope Leo's address to the university community at the Catholic University of St. Louis.
14:08This is the Saint Terribius of Mongrovejo, and the Holy Father is putting on his stole and will now impart
14:14his apostolic blessing upon the university students and the staff.
14:20This is Pope Leo's 14 with his stolas to the blessings of the people at the University of Mongrovejo.
14:28And here is the people praying together with him in this meeting with the Ciclay University community in this University
14:40of Santo Toribio de Mongrovejo Catholic University.
14:45Let's listen to the prayers of Pope Leo 14 with the faithful people that gathered and joined him.
14:53Amen.
14:54Bendito sea el nombre del Señor.
14:57Nuestro auxilio es en el nombre del Señor.
15:01La bendición de Dios Todopoderoso, Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo descienda sobre ustedes.
15:10Amén.
15:12A compartión de Dios Todopoderoso, Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo, y Espíritu Santo.
15:22Greetings for his return to the country, in which it is a place that means a lot for him.
15:31He has concluded his address after the blessing at the Catholic University.
15:42This is a special moment for him in Chitlayo, the homecoming of him after being a long time out of
15:55the country.
15:56And he was received for the great amount of people early he gave Mass.
16:05And now in these gatherings, these meetings with the Chitlayo University community,
16:14this is the people chanting that,
16:18the old brother, you are from Chitlayo.
16:25He is in an offering and a gift to the people.
16:35This is a gift exchange.
16:42And now he will bless the Virgin in this gathering, in this meeting with the Chitlayo University community,
16:54at the Santo Terribio, the Mogroveo Catholic University.
16:59Here is Pope Leo Blessing Virgin Mary.
17:05In this Catholic University of Saint Terribio of Mogroveo.
17:14As we will see here in these images, there are a lot of people that gathered in the Catholic University
17:23to be together with Pope Leo XIV.
17:26So more news coming up in our news brief and also here in Telestore English.
17:31Stay tuned.
17:32Stay tuned.
