In the Vatican you can find someone who knows the Pope, has worked with him or for him, has ever greeted him or found it in some nearby ‘treatory’. And failing that there are always people … who knows his family of blood or congregation, or one who has a cousin whose sister -in -law is the aunt of a priest who was with him in a Peruvian mission. If the Holy Father has visited half Europe and half America (from the north and south) as a prior of a religious order with a strong presence in teaching, and has photographed with people of all condition and race, its scope of claimed proximity acquires a quasi -planetary dimension.
So this Friday the hundreds of journalists displaced to the conclave had enough human material to interview in the square. Especially Augustinian friars, whose residence is right next to the colonnade, and that on Thursday night they celebrated the election during a jubilant dinner Finished with champagne toast. The Osa (Order of San Agustín) has spent five centuries trying to take off the stigma of having hosted in its ranks the founder of the Lutheran split, and that historical imprint has been fully redeemed with the White Smoking. Although they had two pontiffs – the English Adriano IV and flamenco Adriano VI– In distant times, it was time for their missionary services and teaching prestige to be recognized to the highest level by the contemporary Church.
Less happy were the Italians, who on this occasion were seen with serious chance to recover the headquarters of San Pedro after 47 years. The powerful transalpine structure of curial and political influence had been pushing in that sense since Francisco entered the hospital and the inheritance hypothesis shot. They had several good candidates: ZUPPIpresident of the Episcopal Conference, Pizzaballabishop of Jerusalem, and above all Parolinthe current Secretary of State, who entered the Sistine as a favorite theorist and fulfilled the adage that whoever arrives as Pope ‘in pecore’ comes out.
The press published this Friday an alleged result of the four successive votes, in which Parolin, insufficient winner of the first scrutiny, would have ended up supporting Prevost to facilitate the agreement when seen obstructed by a compact locking minority without which it was impossible for anyone to reach the preceptive two thirds. There is a penalty of excommunication for those who reveal details of a deliberation protected by rigorous secret, but the leaks, of being true – this does not seem -, they suggest that there must be some excommunicated cardinal ‘Late sententiae’ for telling what happened there. The journalistic story suggests that the American, Prefect of the Dicastery of the Bishops, had the favor of many colleagues whom he had treated according to this position.
At least the local Vaticanists, that curious professional specialty that consists in speculating with dozens of papables in the hope of hitting with any of them, they have the comfort of having included the winner in the wide range of pools that handled the media, although they considered it a little more than hypothetical resource. Less luck had in the past decade a renowned expert who published a book with fifty possible successors of Benedict XVI and left a certain Argentine purple in the inkwell. By the way, and even if it is ugly to presume later, the ABC correspondent, Javier Martínez-Brocalhe did include the future Leo XIV in his preferential forecasts from the first moment. As recorded in writing, merit has the right to sign up.
The gestural distance with its predecessor, already expressed in the return to classic clothes, also manifests itself in the announcement that it will live in the Apostolic Palace, the traditional Pontifical Residence
Alien to these calculations, the ‘Papaleone’, as they begin to call it in Italy, presided over the Mass of the Cardinals in his first morning as Pope and in the same stage where he received the tiara (symbolic, because he was Paul I saw the last to use it). Under the ‘final judgment’ of Miguel Ángel He released in several languages a well -built homily glossing the evangelical metaphor of the Church as the light of the world, the city on top of the hill. He spoke of a “factual atheism” in which many nominal Catholics militate; He called the Cardinal elite to defend the faith and the message of Christ as a remedy to the frequent loss of the meaning of life in a society of growing materialistic weight, and quoted Francisco several times to make clear a certain will of continuism that many commentators clarify. The gestural distance with its predecessor, already expressed in the return to the classic clothes that it looked on Thursday in the Basilica Lodge, also manifests itself in the announcement, to confirm, that it will live in the Apostolic Palace, the traditional Pontifical Residence.
Outside, in the surroundings, normality returned with a soft tingling of tourists and pilgrims. The stores of ‘merchandising’ They have not yet received prints and memories from Leo XIV, despite the fact that Rome printing women work from the eve to any pace to serve them. In the capital, the election has been greeted with some relief; There has been no rupturist shaking in any way, nor an ethnic turn like the one that an African or Filipino father would have meant. On televisions, analysts conjecture about Premost’s relationship with Trump, a fundamental issue in the geopolitical field. ‘La Stampa’ speaks of “the calm force” and in the ‘Corriere’, Massimo Gramellini Use the word ‘mutezza’ (gentleness, moderation, humility, meekness) to define it and compare its smile with that of the actor Toni Servillo. Most of the interpretations underline the word “bridge”, widely used in the pre -main congregations, as a present image of a stage refractory to the conflict that, except for some fundamentalist invective, does not seem to have a bad principle. It touches Leone D’America (‘Il Giornale’) to draw his own path.
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