A powerful speech that went unnoticed by Western media: To members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See (9 January 2026)
A message to the EU. Clear enough to be ignored.
Pope Leo XIV put it in plain words:
“especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.
Unfortunately, this leads to other consequences that end up restricting fundamental human rights”
That alone should have caused panic in Brussels. It did not.
But he went further.
He stated that the post war order is over. Power moves first, law is consulted later, if convenient.
He called for dialogue, multilateralism, and respect for international law instead of sanctions, which have replaced diplomacy.
He criticized a world economy built on debt.
He warned that technology without ethics accelerates domination, surveillance, and manipulation.
On migration, he said that people move because systems fail.
When the most conservative institution on Earth openly says that the global order is exhausted, something is seriously rotten.
A message to the EU. Clear enough to be ignored.
Pope Leo XIV put it in plain words:
“especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking. At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it.
Unfortunately, this leads to other consequences that end up restricting fundamental human rights”
That alone should have caused panic in Brussels. It did not.
But he went further.
He stated that the post war order is over. Power moves first, law is consulted later, if convenient.
He called for dialogue, multilateralism, and respect for international law instead of sanctions, which have replaced diplomacy.
He criticized a world economy built on debt.
He warned that technology without ethics accelerates domination, surveillance, and manipulation.
On migration, he said that people move because systems fail.
When the most conservative institution on Earth openly says that the global order is exhausted, something is seriously rotten.
