Leo XIV
It is the name that resonates most in the media and in conversations this afternoon. After only 5 votes, and in a conclave that has followed the usual tone of recent years, the American Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church.
Although for many in this world, the Habemus Papam can be understood as the end of weeks of intense speculation, opinions, rumors, facts and falsehoods, for the universal Church it is a new beginning. A new step forward on the path of God's presence on earth.
The new Pope is well aware of the many and varied challenges that lie ahead of him and that the twelve general congregations that preceded the conclave have put on the table: the stabilization of the reform of the Curia, the role of the Pope and canon law, the economic crisis of the Holy See, evangelization in a secularized world, and the continuing fight against abuse and other behaviors that hurt the People of God.
But the Pope is not alone. It is all the faithful who, with our prayer, through our life of faith, our work carried out for the love of God and our personal commitment (with falls and "comebacks") make the Church day by day together with the successor of Peter. Because the new Pope does not succeed Francis, but Peter; he does not take the reins of the Church from Francis, or from Benedict, but the Church of Christ. Before him she answers.
Once the smoke has gone white and the nerve has run through the bodies of millions of faithful and non-faithful around the world, once we have been able to see the new father of all, with the awareness that God has entrusted him to feed the sheep of a complicated flock, it is time to firmly sing the Creed that lays the foundations of the Church that, as of today, has a new "bridge builder" (pontifex) Leon. Orate pro eo.
Director of Omnes. Degree in Communication, with more than 15 years of experience in Church communication. She has collaborated in media such as COPE or RNE.
