Zuppi leaves the Catholic University on a scooter and dodges the journalists

Upon leaving the mass celebrated in the church of the Catholic University in Rome to inaugurate the conference "The splendor of the human, preserving fertility, curing infertility", promoted by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, a stone's throw from the Agostino Gemelli polyclinic where Pope Leo is hospitalized, the president of the CEI, Card. Matteo Zuppi dribbled past journalists and cameras by climbing aboard a scooter that was waiting for him at the exit and immediately covering himself with a full-face helmet.

"The Word of God instead warns us against appearances and invites us to fight the evil that ruins existence, so that life is full of a splendor that becomes intelligence, a defense of life itself from conception to the end".

"That splendor - continues Zuppi - transforms difficulties: when splendor is the mystery of life that grows, when it reveals itself even in fragility and weakness, then human splendor reveals itself entirely. And in the human we see the divine. If we look for the glory of appearance and self-exhibition we do not know how to see it. This is thanks for these two anniversaries that we celebrate, in a current situation in which, so lightly, the right to life is trampled upon".

"Pope Leo 2026 during his visit to the Accueil Notre-Dame in Lourdes".

"May these days - he urged - then help you to choose with renewed awareness in the difficult challenges on an ethical level and with great professionalism, without losing sight of the splendor of the human. We are immersed in a situation in which humanity is frightening and science can produce terrible inhumanities to which, in the destruction caused by wars and ruinous technologies, we will never be able to get used to".

Thanks go to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, which has always placed itself in this service and helps us to rediscover our true vocation because we know how to safeguard, protect and take care of life, starting from fertility".

"You - he continued - demonstrate how the limit, taking up the Magnifica Humanitas, today appears as inability, suffering, non-ability and is read as a defect to be corrected: on the contrary, the human flourishes not despite the limit but through the limit and becomes a reason for wisdom, knowledge and hope, promoting life with love making it magnificent and full of splendor. Defend the human even where the inhuman prevails and protect life as the Lord teaches us."