Pope to Cardinals: the Church's mission demands unity and love

“I am here to listen,” Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals in the Consistory, as he laid the foundations for the Church's mission, as defined in Vatican II's Lumen Gentium and by the pontiffs St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II first, and Benedict XVI and Francis later. “Unity attracts, division disperses”, and “the commandment of love”, have been nuclear themes.