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 Below is a short reflection then-Fr. Prevost gave on October 11, 2012, during the 2012 Synod on the New Evangelization.  Hat tip to Redditor unconscionable for finding this.  The Vatican source can be found here .  Below is merely an excerpt; audio of the full address can be found here: Part 1 , Part 2 .   Evangelization and Mass Media Fr. Robert F. Prevost, O.S.A.  October 11, 2012 At least in the contemporary western world, if not throughout the entire world, the human imagination concerning both religious faith and ethics is largely shaped by mass media, especially by television and cinema. Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel. However, overt opposition to Christianity by mass media is only part of the problem. The sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyle choices that mass media fosters is so brilliantly and artfully engrained in...

Habemus papam! Here is a link to a 2005 address from Pope Leo XIV (then simply Fr. Robert F. Prevost, OSA): "The Servant Leader in the Perspective of Augustinian Spirituality. "  The address was given to the Congress of O.S.A. Educators and Schools in Rome. Thanks to Reddit user u/leibnizean for posting the link to this address.  Below is the full text of the address. The Servant Leader in the Perspective of Augustinian Spirituality Fr. Robert F. Prevost, O.S.A. Prior General 2001-2013 Order of Saint Augustine July 25, 2005 Introduction Early in the year 387, (so after Augustine's “conversion experience” in the garden, but before his baptism), we find Augustine - according to a letter he wrote to his good friend Nebridius - “stretched out on his bed, in the still of the night, holding dialogues with himself.” (Letter 3, 1). These reflections are, in large part, the result of a similar process. It is my hope that such late night “dialogues” will have come tog...