Love of Christ entails detachment, loss, and hospitality, Pope Leo said today during his midday Angelus address (video).

At the conclusion of the June 26-27 extraordinary consistory of cardinals (program), Pope Leo XIV said that synodality is not about power, nor about the multiplication of meetings, but about guarding the Gospel with fidelity.

During the third session of the two-day extraordinary consistory (program), which concludes today, members of the College of Cardinals discussed the topic, “Building the Good: The Worksites of Our Time.” According to the Vatican News’s summary of the confidential deliberations, “the antidote to individualism and to fractures, many groups agreed, is the Gospel: a Church that offers a sense of belonging, that is able to soothe the wounds of our time, and that is renewed while avoiding forms of integralism and polarization; a Church that makes visible its Samaritan face, with Christians who are not spectators of social ruin, but wise architects who rebuild the city of all.” According to the summary, the cardinals also discussed the following topics, among others: “the deep fractures of our time: among peoples and nations, within societies, and within families themselves; and on how these generate wounds, especially among the poorest, the weakest, you