When his name was pronounced, there was as a murmur of misunderstanding in the crowd gathered on Saint-Pierre square, in Rome. “Prevost?” Who is it ? »» In the race for the throne of Peter, the observers saw in him a serious candidate, for his ability to collect and appease the Church. But, for the general public, Robert Francis Prevost, 267ᵉ pope of the Catholic Church and the first coming from the United States, is an unknown.
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-When the white smoke appeared at the Chapel Sistine chapel on Thursday, May 8 shortly after 6 p.m., onlookers were still betting on the victory of Pietro Parolin, former number two of François and the announced voting. “It will be him, Parolin, with the name of reign Paul VII”predicted two French priests. The speed with which the election was played (four towers, twenty-four hours of conclave) had to strengthen this hypothesis.
It will therefore be Robert PREVOST, from the Order of Saint-Augustin, with the name of reign Léon XIV. This choice places the new pontiff in the continuity of Léon XIII, the Pope who forged the social doctrine of the Church, in particular through the encyclical The revolutionary (“New things”), published in 1891. Clearly, the promise of a pontificate anchored in modernity and concerned with the poor, margins, excluded – “Peripheries”would have said François, to whom Léon XIV paid a supported tribute.
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