The Pope begins his mandate with a conciliatory style to close the injuries | International
The day of the first impressions on XIV Leone It is already known that it does not give titles, nor surprises, nor show. Robert Francis Prevost, the first American Pope, is discreet and silent, does not give the feeling of wanting to attract attention to himself. In his first words on the balcony of San Pedro did not only reference to himself, as before Francisco, Benedict XVI or Juan Pablo II. He gave a certain idea of ​​returning to normal, to that of the usual potatoes, after Francisco’s storm.
If 2013, Bergoglio in his first days revolutionized the Vatican and the city of Rome. It was an instant seduction with its gestures, its improvisations, its welcoming, the electricity transmitted and the advent of many changes. Premost no, and it is still curious. He is a conciliatory pope chosen to close the wounds And the clashes that are placated, both within the Church and outside, because the divisions of politics, of the company are also within the Church.
On the internal front, the homily of the mass held on Friday was revealing against the cardinals, in the Sistine Chapel. Leo XIV seemed almost a simple and attentive director of an ancient tradition that now reaches him. “God, Calling me through your vote To happen to the first of the Apostles, this treasure entrusts me, so that, with its help, it is his faithful administrator, “he explained. Translated, that he will not governing alone, but with others, and that he will not decide the drastic changes from his own.
Without a doubt, it will be raised to the most conservative. Because the relative to Francisco and more progressive were already happy from the day before. The most traditional sectors reproached the Argentine Pope for an excess of authoritarianism and solo decisions, as well as a loss of institutional solemnity which, in his opinion, eroded the Church. In this sense, the first important test for Premost is to decide where you will live. If you remain in the residence of Santa Marta, like Francisco, or you will return to the Apostolic Palace. But he still leaves him in the air, underlined the Vatican Fuentes. He will continue for now in Santa Marta and will decide later, because the traditional papal rooms also need agreements.
At the moment, Thursday evening Leo XIV has approached what has been his home so far, literally two steps from the Vatican, and had his first meeting with faithful. It was the first time that he seemed dressed in white. He was close, he signed an autograph for the first time to a girl, although he noticed that the company, being new, was not yet well and accepted a little of himself. The first, who knows, with the nun Nathalie Bequart, undersecretary of the Synod of the bishops, central body in the Mandate of Francisco.
As for his relationship with world politics, the first contact of the new Pope will be on May 18, Sunday, when the pontificate’s starting ceremony will be held. As at the Funeral of Francisco, on April 26, almost all the heads of state and the government will probably be seen again in the same place which then participated in that mass. It will be the moment when Leo XIV will go directly to them, even if already in their first speech after the choice of the most mentioned word was “peace”.
It is symptomatic that in a welcome climate and waiting for events, the only aggressive reaction against Leo XIV has arrived in his country, in the United States and the ultra -care world relating to Donald Trump. Being an American potato, the battle that is coming is evident and in those clubs is already directly an “anti-trump”, in the words of Steve Bannon, previously ideologous and strategist of the President of the United States. Corriere della Sera. The phrase makes an equivalence with the conspiracy thesis of a profound state that manipulates citizens, and a week ago Bannon had warned that Prevost was “the dark horse” of the power groups hidden in the race for the Pope’s succession. “It is the worst choice for Maga Catholics (acronym for make America Great Again Movement)”, he explained Politicalindicating “the globalists of the Curia”.
Laura Loomer, activist of Laura Right and conspiracy said, who defines as “proud Islamophobe” and “white nationalist”. “It is anti-Trump, anti-Maga, open pro-French and a Marxist convinced of Pope Francis. The Catholics have nothing good to wait. Another Marxist puppet in the Vatican,” he wrote on social networks.
The editorial comments of the Fox News Conservative Chain also showed their concern for the possibility that the new pontiff “was convinced that the Church should no longer oppose modernism, but to accept it and even be part of it, to seem pertinent and current”. A reflection that seemed more than a century ago, with Leo XIII, the previous pope so called, the pontiff who started dialogue with the modern world, to criticize the evolution of capitalism in the industrial revolution and has introduced social issues in the Church.
Leo XIV, now, is perfectly clear that the reference of his nineteenth century predecessor and in reality chose the name, as a cardinal said, for his concern for the conditions of the world of work. The story revealed it to a Croatian television network Cardinal Serbio Ladislav Nemet, Archbishop of Belgrade, who at dinner held after the election of the Pope, sat next to him: “We spoke and asked how the name has chosen. Revolution, now there is a digital revolution.
