In the first homily of Pope Leo XIV on Friday, it is placed directly from the side of the “common people”, and against the rich and powerful, a statement not insignificant for the first Pope of the richest and most powerful country in the world.
It also seemed that in a church divided between those who wish to emit the defense of the doctrine and those who wish to prioritize missionary work, the Pope born in Chicago defined himself, first, as a missionary, and in so well, done in what was done. This is what many cardinals who support their predecessor, Pope Francis, were looking to enter this week’s conclave, and it seems that they found him in Leo.
In its homiletic duration, a Mass with the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, the Pope invoked the history of Jesus, saying that although rich people fired him as an inonant fanatic, the ordinary people found him “the way he has done so, that he has, path, path, has, in the way, has done so, he has done it, he has done Ho, he has a validity,
But he noticed that they also abandoned him when things became difficult. Only for the first followers of Jesus, he was “just a man,” said the Pope, and so when he was crucified, they were disappointed and left.
Leo argued that this was exactly what was happening today, with many spheres: read: media, pop culture, government elites, Academia, Silicon Valley, perceiving Christianity as “absurd, meean for the weak and unintelligent.”
He is a former leader of the international and intellectual rigorous order appointed by San Agustín, the bishop and writer of the fourth century whose vision of the centrality of faith redefined the Church and Western culture by helping Bury, and tar. That worldview, which had followers in some old Roman circles of elite, prioritized happiness through a modern search or pleasure and pain avoidance.
The new Pope seemed to echo Augustine when he lamented those “environments where other values are preferred, such as technology, money, success, power or pleasure.”
When talking about all this in his first homily, the new Pope pointed out that he would make the dissemination of the gospel in this enemy territory a priority of his pontificate, in strong continuity with Francis.
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He added, promptly, that nominal believers also occupy these environments, people who treat Jesus as a superhero instead of some who led for their actions, and whose actions need to imitate. He said these Christians live as de facto atheists.
The Pope born in Chicago gets used to Peru as a missionary, and his missionary spirit impressed Francis, who empowered him and put him in a position to become a potato. He ended with the counting of the cardinals that he, like Francis, saw himself as a simple missionary with the work of spreading the gospel through his actions. Francis had the habit of exclaiming the cardinals for getting over their herds, for living great and forgetting for what they were there. Leo also reminded the cardinals arranged in front of him, in less hard but no less uncertain terms, that his work was also to be simple missionaries.
To emphasize this, the Pope spoke of the ancient Saint who welcomed his venerio, being devoured by wild beasts in a Roman sand, because he would eliminate his body from the image and let his missionary faith shine.
“His words apply more generally to an indispensable commitment to all those in the Church who exercise a ministry of authority,” Leo said. They argued that the duty of the cardinals was not to take the center of the stage, but “withdraw” and “do good” so that faith could grow and spread.
“I say this first for me,” he added.
