{"id":66589,"date":"2026-05-29T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/66589\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:26:13","slug":"pope-leo-and-canadian-prime-minister-talk-by-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/66589\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo and Canadian Prime Minister talk by phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV and the Canadian Prime Minister hold a telephone conversation on the themes of the Pope\u2019s recently published encyclical, as well as on efforts for peace among peoples, particularly in the Middle East and Ukraine, and on topics of common interest.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican News<\/p>\n<p>A phone call took place between Pope Leo XIV and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, on Friday afternoon, \u201con the occasion of the publication of the Encyclical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">Magnifica humanitas.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Holy See Press Office, \u201cthe importance of developing artificial intelligence from an ethical perspective and with a human-centred approach was discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conversation also touched upon questions of mutual interest at the regional and international levels, with particular reference to efforts in promoting peace, especially in the Middle East and in Ukraine,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting after Mass for inauguration of pontificate <\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 18, 2025, following the Mass marking the beginning of his pontificate.<\/p>\n<p>Carney, a practising Catholic, had travelled to Rome with his family. Appointed Prime Minister in March 2025, the 61-year-old economist, banker, executive, and politician is the leader of Canada\u2019s Liberal Party. He is married to Diane, and they have four children.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV and the Canadian Prime Minister hold a telephone conversation on the themes of the Pope\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[439,17,28102,587,6383,2000,3297],"class_list":["post-66589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-canada","tag-magnifica-humanitas","tag-middle-east","tag-peace","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}