Leo XIV’s speech to diplomats a seminar in St. Augustine

If there is one line to take from Leo XIV’s first “state of the world” address to  diplomats accredited to the Holy See, it is this: “Seeking only immanent goods undermines that ‘tranquility of order’, which, for Augustine, constitutes the very essence of peace, which concerns society and nations as much as the human soul itself, and is essential for any civil coexistence.”

It would take more than one hefty book to unpack the Augustinian notion of tranquillitas ordinis – the “tranquility of order” ...