Ashley Noronha joined John Morales on Morning Air to reflect on Pope Leo XIV’s Wednesday General Audience from February 4, 2026, in which the Holy Father continued his catechetical series on Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Divine Revelation.
Due to steady rain in Vatican City that morning, the General Audience was held inside the Paul VI Hall rather than in St. Peter’s Square. From there, Pope Leo resumed his teaching on the nature of Sacred Scripture, focusing on how God chooses to speak to humanity through human language.
The Pope described the Bible as a privileged place of encounter, where God continues to address men and women in every age. Scripture is not just a historical record or a collection of religious texts. It is the living Word through which God remains present and active in the life of the Church. At the same time, Pope Leo emphasized an essential truth of the Catholic understanding of revelation: even though Scripture conveys a divine message, it does so through human words.
God, the Pope explained, does not communicate through a superhuman or inaccessible form of speech. Instead, He humbles Himself to speak in ways that can be received, understood, and passed on within particular cultures, histories, and languages. This divine condescension mirrors the mystery at the heart of the Incarnation itself.
To illustrate this point, Pope Leo turned directly to Dei Verbum, quoting paragraph 13: “For the words of God, expressed in human language, have been made like human discourse, just as the word of the eternal Father, when He took to Himself the flesh of human weakness, was in every way made like men.” The Pope underscored that Scripture and the Incarnation are inseparably linked. Just as the Son of God became fully man without ceasing to be fully divine, the Word of God takes on human speech without losing its divine authority or truth.
Pope Leo concluded his catechesis by inviting the faithful to respond with gratitude and humility. He asked all present, and all those following the audience, to thank God for the gift of His Word and for the spiritual nourishment it provides to the Church. He also encouraged Catholics to invoke the Holy Spirit more intentionally when reading Scripture, asking for the grace to go deeper into its meaning and to allow it to shape not only personal prayer, but also speech, decisions, and daily actions.