Statement on the New Pope and Moral Leadership
by Imam Earl Abdulmalik Mohammed
9 May 2025
We are living in a special time where though there is formidable momentum to trivialize and diminish true justice for humanity moving through all nations, God’s plan for Justice to be established by way of the determination and works of sincere moral leadership continues to trod its righteous pathways. There is no doubt that the Catholic Church following and its leadership have tremendous reach and significance as a voice for Justice in the world.
With the Tradition of Muhammed the Prophet’s spirit and actions to seek and guarantee viable norms of Social Justice for all people under God’s Command securing our hearts and minds, we salute the new leader of the Catholic people - Pope Leo XIV. We ask for God’s Aid to him and his flock of Believers.
The Muslim African-Americans (while it is with some burden that we must make this characterization of identity because of fractures in Muslim identity and understanding) belonging to the influence of Imam W. Deen Mohammed’s moral commitments have no mission above seeing that Justice prevail in human society under God’s Guidance and Approval.
To that end, and in the spirit of a universal human brotherhood and its partner commitment to a peaceful existence for all Peoples on the earth we pledge our support and put our collective hands in the hand of this Pope born of American identity and its conflicts, like us.
We say to him in response to his greeting and to mankind “Peace be on you all and God’s Mercy and Blessings.”