It is an imposed figure of the immediate post-Conclave: after a period when the differences of views appear, it is the responsibility of the elected Pope to reassure as to the unity of the Church. The voting system itself, which requires a majority of two thirds, has been thought of to keep the shadow from the schisms.
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-This concern can materialize even in the choice of the name of reign. Jean Paul Iisin 1978, had chosen to bring together in his name his two predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI, whose distant guidelines had fractured the Church.
By choosing the name of Léon XIV, in reference to Léon XIII, the American cardinal Robert Francis Prevost shows the importance he attaches to the social fiber of the Church. But he did not fail, during his intervention at the Balcony of the Saint-Pierre Basilica, Thursday, May 8, to recall: “Let’s be united, hand in hand …”
If this need for unity manifests, it is also an inheritance of the pontificate of François. The Argentinian pope was rented for having embodied the Church in the world with an unusual force. But his governance, lonely, erratic, sometimes authoritarian, has been criticized. During the general congregations that preceded the conclave, cardinals explicitly requested a more collegial mode of government and expressed a need for appeasement. The reform of the Curia, launched by François, will also have to be carried out to properly upset the institution, at the risk of promoting inertia and sabotage.
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