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A profound revolution in contemporary intellectual affairs has been proposed by Pope Leo XIV in his new Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. More importantly, as seen in his recent trip to Spain, and the response he is eliciting, this first United States-born Pope is “walking his talk.” He is challenging the international War Party, and calling for a dialogue of civilizations that transcends the present failed and failing bankrupt geopolitics that is relentlessly driving humanity toward thermonuclear war.

Vatican News reports that “In the fifth chapter—The Culture of Power and the Civilization of Love—Pope Leo XIV turns his gaze to war, saying ‘the digital revolution is changing the nature of conflict.’ The Pope calls for an ethical approach, without which decisions about the life and death of persons will become increasingly impersonal due to a use of force regarded as an ‘immediate and viable option’ (182-183). At the root of all this is a ‘culture of power’ that normalizes war and rehabilitates it as an ‘instrument of international politics,’ favoring rearmament.”

The Pope, trained as an Augustinian, will be glad to know that the magnificence of humanity of which his encyclical’s title speaks is demonstrated through the science of technological progress that is the substance of physical economy. Speaking at the December 28, 1985 conference of the Schiller Institute, called “The Year of St. Augustine,” Lyndon LaRouche presented an affirmation of Leo’s theme, but from an ontological rather than theological standpoint:

“Man… is capable of Reason. Capable of seeing a lawful ordering in the universe, and using the knowledge of that lawful ordering to reform and change his own behavior. And in this way, by making reason rather than (Adam) Smith’s immediate and original instincts, bestial qualities, the characteristic of human behavior, by so doing, we achieve what we call scientific and technological progress. We not only increase man’s power over nature by bending man’s will to the law of Reason in the universe—by making the mind, not the bestial aspect of humanity, the personality, and the value, the identity of the person. We not merely increase the human population, but we elevate the possible moral condition of mankind—if we don’t have oligarchs to ruin the process—usurers, Venetian bankers, and the like. Then we begin to discover what is the Good…

“What is the Good? The Good is the power of mind to recognize a principle of Reason as a lawful ordering of the entire universe. To recognize that a process of development is associated with this, and to recognize that the continuation and acceleration of the takeover of the personality by elaborated Reason, is the Good! The elevation of the moral condition of mankind in correspondence with this principle, and in actions congruent with that principle, is the Good.

Such was the principle of Solon at Athens. Such was the principle of the Platonic Academy, the concept of the Republic. And such were the principles of the founding of the modern European republic by the writings of Saint Augustine. That is the Good. And the Republic is the only natural condition of mankind. And it was proven by Dante and his followers, that not only natural form of republic is a totally sovereign nation, state, not subject to the IMF, or the World Bank.”

In this 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and in the days leading up to July 4, the LaRouche Organization continues its mission, not only to conduct a singular discussion of the world-historic strategic implications, of the Pope’s encyclical, but to find interlocutors in Russia, China, the trans-Atlantic filed states, and in the world capable of establishing a Council of Reason that allows humanity to survive the present “New Dark Age.” The failures of trans-Atlantic monetarism, the Epstein Class, must not be allowed to succeed in imposing their Satanic “will to power” on the world before their ultimate demise.