A meeting of about two hours, with a first speech by Pope Leone XIV, in which he also explained why the choice of the name, and a second part of free discussion. The new pontiff chooses to begin his ministry by meeting again, after the mass celebrated yesterday in Sistine, the cardinals. It does so by remembering that they are the first to help the pontiff in the burdensome weight of conducting the church, “game greater than my strength as that of anyone else». In the words of Pope Prevost not only the pain for the disappearance of his predecessor, but also the commitment to continue his work. “We collect this precious inheritance and resume the path, animated by the same hope that comes from faith,” he underlines. The themes dear to Augustinian spirituality, the humble servants, and the sense of community, resumes the themes. And it starts from the Council and the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis. “I would like together, today, we renewed our full adhesion, in this journey, to the way that for decades for decades the universal Church has been traveling in the wake of the Second Vatican Council”.
Pope Francis, he adds “The contents in the apostolic exhortation of Evangelii Gaudium, of which I want to underline some fundamental instances: the return to the primacy of Christ in the announcement has been attracted and masterfully updated (cf. 11); The missionary conversion of the whole Christian community (cf. n. 9); growth in collegiality and synodality (cf. n. 33); Attention to the sensus fidei (cf. nn. 119-120), especially in its more and inclusive forms, such as popular piety (cf. n. 123); the loving care of the last, and of the discarded (cf. n. 53); the brave and confident dialogue with the contemporary world in its various components and reality. (cf. 84; Vatican Council II, Const. Past. Gaudium et spes, 1-2) ».
They are the principles of the Gospel, who “have always animate and inspired the life and work of the family of God”, he recalls. And then he explains that “just feeling called to continue in this wake, I thought of taking the name of Leone XIV. There are several reasons, however mainly because Pope Leo XIII, in fact, with the historic encyclical rerum novarum, faced the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution; And today the Church offers everyone its heritage of social doctrine to respond to another industrial revolution and developments of artificial intelligence, which involve new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work “.
And finally, I quote Paul VI and the hope, in 1963, that “placed at the beginning of his Ministry Petrino:” He passed throughout the world as a great flame of faith and love that ignites all men of good will, you risk the ways of mutual collaboration, and attracts on humanity, still and always, the abundance of divine complacencies, The same strength of God, without the help of which, is nothing valid, nothing is holy “».
