Seek truth and goodness, not consensus and appearances, Pope writes to young Italian professionals
April 20, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: In a message to a meeting of young professionals at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Pope Leo XIV wrote that “you are called to be present where ideas are formed and decisions concerning the destiny of peoples are directed.”
“Yours is not only a path of excellence: it is a mission,” Pope Leo wrote to the Toniolo Young Professional Association, named after the lay economist Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo (1845-1918). “You are not asked to emerge, but to serve. Not to affirm yourselves, but to make fruitful what you have received.”
“’May you disappear so that Christ may remain’: this maxim does not diminish, but frees,” Pope Leo added in his April 18 message. “It frees you from the search for consensus, to root you in the truth; it frees you from appearances, to consign you to the substance of good.”
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