On January 24, Pope Leo XIV met with business leaders from the energy and critical minerals industries, including major mining multinationals BHP and Vale. The meeting was a continuation of the "Building Bridges Initiative" begun by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America in 2022, by Pope Francs then-Cardinal Robert Prevost before he was elected at Pope Leo XIV. This was the seventh synodal meeting under this initiative.
In coverage by the Financial Times, the meeting was connected to Catholic Approaches to Mining, the recent guidance document for Catholic engagement on mining published by CPN in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the Laudato Si' Research Institute at the University of Oxford.