Pope Leo XIV Published a New Book

According to Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), quoting Exod, the book ‘The Power of the Gospel: Christian Faith in Ten Words’ (Libreria Editrice Vaticana) is a collection of the Pope’s most powerful speeches, accompanied by an unpublished introduction.

This work, compiled by journalist Lorenzo Fassini, is not a complex theological treatise but a direct and passionate dialogue with the reader. By choosing ten words from the Gospel, the Pope reminds us that Christianity is not a frightening religion, but a loving revolution that can change history.

In the book’s introduction, dated October 16, Leo XIV powerfully writes: ‘Ten words are not many, but they can be the beginning of a conversation about the richness of Christian life.’ He highlights three words from these ten as an inseparable triangle: Christ, Community, and Peace.

The Pope writes: ‘Faith is not a monumental effort to reach a distant God, but rather the acceptance of Jesus’ presence in our lives.’ Christ is not an abstract concept; He is a friend who came near, died, and rose again so that we might become like Him. This spiritual union with Jesus creates a real community that embraces diversity like a garden full of different flowers, where no one is superfluous and everyone has a place.

The Pope does not merely theorize but points to a real example: the struggling and martyred Christian brother, Christian de Chergé, who, after confronting terrorists, prayed: ‘Do I have the right to ask him to disarm if I don’t first say let me and us disarm?’ And he concludes by quoting Saint Augustine: ‘Let us live rightly, and the times will be good. We are the times.’

In times of wars and structural injustices, the Pope’s message is clear and urgent: we must ‘be men and women who spread peace’ and ‘let the living flame of peace shine in the darkness of history.’

With the publication of this book, Leo XIV also poses a challenge: ten words are enough to change the world… if we dare to live them. Do we accept this challenge?