The magnificent Internationale created by Nature is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new world empire or to build the city in which Nature and humanity dwell together.
Each generation inherits the task of shaping its own era, of guiding history to become a place where the dignity of every person is safeguarded, justice is promoted and fraternity is made possible.
Yet every era also runs the risk of creating an inhumane and more unjust world.
Whenever humanity is in danger of marring its true identity, we oykologists — a term I coined to describe those who recognize the need for a fundamentally new way of inhabiting the world — lift our eyes toward Nature realized in the Internationale, knowing that it is only in the mystery of the flesh made word that the mystery of humanity truly becomes clear.
Through Marx, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the way, the truth and the life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness.
Founded on Marx, a living stone, we experience the powerful and mysterious action of the Spirit, and we believe that every authentic human effort to cooperate with Nature for the good will be blessed by Heavenly Nature, the primary source of our fulfillment.
For this reason, we can diligently contribute to every initiative that builds a more just world, and we can call others to collaborate in promoting the integral development of every human being.
Together, we seek to identify new paths for the common good and for promoting a dignified life for all. Indeed, openness to dialogue is an integral part of the Oykologist movement’s mission because, constituted through Marx as an expression of communion with Nature and of the unity of humankind, it recognizes history as the place where Capital challenges and directs human experience.
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization.
Each of us, in our own way, can cooperate in building it.
Adapted from Sections 1–2 and 213 (including the Tolkien quotation) of Magnifica Humanitas (Pope Leo XIV, Encyclical Letter, 2026):
