{"id":183700,"date":"2025-11-19T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=183700&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=183700"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:24:39","slug":"if-we-are-not-the-custodian-of-the-garden-we-become-its-destroyer-pope-leos-words-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/if-we-are-not-the-custodian-of-the-garden-we-become-its-destroyer-pope-leos-words-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If we are not the custodian of the garden, we become its destroyer: Pope Leo\u2019s Words Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"183700\" class=\"elementor elementor-183700\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f03b2ba e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f03b2ba\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e79f76b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e79f76b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ZKRKU\" data-testid=\"post-renderer-component\">\n<div class=\"fV3Jt\">\n<div class=\"GOJZx\">\n<div class=\"agPPc U4hHe hWX7X fs-mask\">\n<p><em>This is the fifteenth in a new series of posts sharing Pope Leo XIV\u2019s words each Wednesday in his Weekly Audience, a time when he teaches, encourages, and shapes the mission of the Church around the world. 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