Some of the messages, drawings and letters arrived in the editorial staff to wish the Pope wishes
Taking 70 is an important stop in life. For Pope Leo XIV, That today passes the threshold of that age, the emotion is filled with the best wishes that they come from all over the world.
Christian family He was among the first to make them through his readers, arriving to collect several thousands of tickets, messages and drawings that we delivered to him in private hearing on 4 September in recent weeks.
Knowing him for us Paolini and our lay collaborators who accompanied us was a great emotion. Always, by the will of our founder, the Blessed Giacomo Treirionebinds us to a particular relationship with the in office popes.
Their magisterium, for those who communicate in the Church like us, is always the lighthouse to help us read the topicality with an evangelical spirit. And of Pope Leone we have already appreciated some things: first of all, using all his moral authority for awaken the consciences of the powerful, the constant appeal to peace, on which he insists from his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Square after his election, on 8 May.
But also the reference to the human heart, a mirror of the divine one, which is one of the key themes of Sant’Agostino, The father of the Church to which the religious order is inspired by which Robert Prevost comes.
A pacified heart avoids polarizations, forgive only of hatred, which are intensifying in the world bringing more and more winds of global war, but also civil (the recent assassination of the “sorceress” activist Charlie Kirk In Utah it could trigger a perverse mechanism of this type in that society).
The heart will be a theme, already addressed by Francesco in his last encyclical Dilexit nos (October 2024), on which we will often hear it because central in human existence.
Of course, we know, as he himself said in his recent (and first) interview with the Peruvian newspaper El comerciowhich takes time because It can fully take on the “papal”, universalistic role.
Will certainly have to enhance his previous pastoral experience (as parish priest, trainer of young religious and bishop) as well as of government (as a general general of his order, before, and prefect of the dicastery of the bishops, later), transforming it into magisterium Erga Omnesin the name of divine mercy.
A posture of which, however, is already clear to him: the conscience of being called to be a “Pontere”as his own office says (Pope, from Latin pontifex, “Creator of bridges”).
Man of dialogue, who unites even distant points making himself the strength of the only resource that is guaranteed by divine statute: the grace of the Holy Spirit.
That grace that all of us with our prayer invoke about him: Best wishes Pope Leo!
