Sustainability and Responsibility in Leadership

Well, it's a great, it's a great honor, and I was very, uh,

well, it's always, it's always nice to be chosen and, and to,

uh, receive,

uh, such a, an honor. And, uh, but the-

it- what's most important, I think, is the commitment that

the university's making to, uh, include

sustainability in how it is forming the future, uh,

leaders of, uh, our church and of our, uh, in this

case, of the United States. I think that's, that

is the important message of the

medal.

Pope Leo himself will be presenting to you this medal

in the course of this important conference.

Why do you believe this conference is so significant at

this time?

Well, because it, it, uh, takes hold of one of the, um,

most basic questions we face, and it's not just an environmental

question, it's a

big, larger social and even more, like, technological

question, which is what, what is our future?

Or as he asks in the encyclical, what kind of a world are we building?

And that we need to take, uh,

uh, we need to recognize our responsibility

for the kind of

world we're building. It's not just, uh, there for us.

And lastly, the Pope's encyclical and the echo that it's

received, d- how do you think it's been...

Lastly, the Holy Father's encyclical, Magnifica

Humanitas, what echo do you believe it's receiving

and

what additional responsibility does that

mean for actors in the Church, but for all

individuals in the world who are committed to sustainability?

No, it's very, it's very gratifying that the Pope's message, uh, is being

read so widely and so, uh, uh, so broadly.

Uh, that is, I think, it might be a first, uh, in the, in the

history of the Church. And, um, it's, uh,

it now, uh, invites everyone to, uh, stand up.

It invites everyone to, uh, recognize,

uh, that we're involved, uh, and that it isn't just something happening to

us, but it's something we're responsible for.

This was already the call, uh, to ecological responsibility.

We also are called now to this responsibility for this

very exciting and, uh, but, uh,

concerning development of artificial intelligence.