{"id":82862,"date":"2026-05-12T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82862"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:20:45","slug":"is-compassion-disappearing-pope-leo-worries-it-might-be-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/is-compassion-disappearing-pope-leo-worries-it-might-be-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Compassion Disappearing? Pope Leo Worries It Might Be, And Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Compassion and empathy are sadly in danger of disappearing today,\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/tag\/leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a>\u00a0told a Christian and Muslim interreligious delegation\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/speeches\/2026\/may\/documents\/20260511-colloquio-ddi-riifs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the Vatican<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, May 11. The Pontiff specifically took aim at the apathy caused by the \u201cconstant flow of images and videos\u201d online.<\/p>\n<div class=\"  \">\n<p>Leo XIV cautioned against the rise of indifference resulting from the downsides of modern technology. He warned that \u201ccompassion and empathy are sadly in danger of disappearing today,\u201d noting that \u201cthe constant flow of images and videos of the hardships of others can dull our hearts rather than stir them.\u201d \u201cThis type of apathy,\u201d the Pope explained, \u201cis becoming one of the most serious spiritual challenges of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778574045\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Is Compassion Disappearing? Pope Leo Worries It Might Be, And Why\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: Compassion and empathy are sadly in danger of disappearing today,\u201d\u00a0Pope Leo XIV\u00a0told a Christian and Muslim interreligious delegation\u00a0at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82863,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions\/82863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}