Pope Leo XIV, the 2023 interview: "I still consider myself a missionary. The bishop is a pastor, not a manager"

We publish the interview of May 2023 that the then Monsignor Robert Francis Prevost, today Pope Leo XIV, released to Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for the communication of the Holy See. For a few months Pope Francis had appointed him prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, in September of the same year he will then be appointed cardinal. In the interview, published in Vatican news (read here), Prevost addresses several topi…

Rosa Maria Palacios commented on the recent designation of Prevost as Pope Leo XIV.

We present Andrea Tornielli's conversation with Robert Francis Prevost as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, conducted in 2023. "We have often focused on teaching doctrine, but we risk forgetting that our first task is to communicate the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus," he said. He added about sexual abuse: "We must be transparent and accompany the victims." Robert Francis Prevost, born Cardinal Prevost's article in 2023: "A bishop is a shep…

He was considered a compromise papable, with an international profile able to unite different sensibilities within the Church. Now it will be up to Prevost, Pope Leo XIV to be a good shepherd. Few interviews given by Prevost in recent years, in a recent Vatican News spoke of his vocation: "I believe in being a missionary, in announcing the Gospel where one is located." Prevost: "The bishop is a pastor close to the people not a manager" Prevost …