The pinnacle of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, handed away on Easter Monday, lower than one month after releasing a video revealing his prayer intention for April during which he requests prayers that new applied sciences, together with these utilized in healthcare, won’t change human relationships.
“It’s true expertise is the fruit of the intelligence God gave us, however we have to use it effectively. It will probably’t profit just a few whereas excluding others,” Pope Francis mentioned within the video. “We must always use expertise to unite, not divide; to assist the poor; to enhance the lives of the sick and individuals with totally different skills.”
In a assertion, the Worldwide Director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Community, Father Cristóbal Fones, mentioned that within the video, Pope Francis aimed to emphasise that technological advances ought to be extra available to everybody.
“Pope Francis desires to remind us that the accountable use of expertise means placing it on the service of the human individual and of creation,” mentioned Father Fones.
Father Fones mentioned the pope emphasised that entry to improvements like on-line instructional sources, telemedicine, healthcare software program and diagnostic instruments, communication platforms enabling international collaboration, in addition to recycling applied sciences and renewable vitality, are important to making sure that expertise helps defend human dignity and improves lives.
Initially from Argentina, Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was the primary Latin American pontiff in historical past. The Vatican introduced the Pope died on Easter Monday on the age of 88 after main the Catholic church for greater than 12 years.
The pontiff suffered a sequence of well being points in recent times and, in February 2025, was hospitalized for about 5 weeks with extreme bronchitis and pneumonia in each lungs.
Pope Francis’ final public look was on Easter Sunday.
