{"id":94218,"date":"2026-09-18T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=94218"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:22:45","slug":"pope-leos-challenge-to-young-augustinians-swim-against-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/pope-leos-challenge-to-young-augustinians-swim-against-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo\u2019s Challenge to Young Augustinians: \u201cSwim Against the Tide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Leo XIV has received members of the International Center for Studies Leo XIV, an initiative of the Order of St. Augustine that is just one year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center studies major social and political changes through the lens of Catholic social teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over two days, researchers and experts met in Rome to discuss the new frontiers of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center includes two well-known figures: Joseph Farrell, the Augustinian prior general and one of the driving forces behind its creation, and Luis Mar\u00edn de San Mart\u00edn, also an Augustinian and a member of its scientific committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEO XIV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Precisely the opposite of resignation, the Augustinian reflection at the heart of your initiative has much to offer the current international landscape: an understanding of love as a principle for renewing personal, economic and political life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its first major international gathering has focused on poverty, but the center\u2019s mission goes much further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEO XIV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Even if this means moving against the current, your mission of hope is to promote, in Italy and around the world, an education for public and political life understood as service to the common good, responsibility toward the community, and the building of relationships grounded in solidarity, justice and peace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center bears the name Leo XIV because it was born within the Augustinian family, responding to the pope\u2019s call to restore the value of Catholic social teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez Pope Leo XIV has received members of the International Center for Studies Leo XIV, an initiative of the Order of St. Augustine that is just one year old. The center studies major social and political changes through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Over two days, researchers and experts met in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":94219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2_Q8-LQC8qI","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bctvcentrostudioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bctvcentrostudioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94223,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94218\/revisions\/94223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}