Leo XIV: the first steps of a pope anchored in the world

Although he seems to be part of the continuity of Francis, Robert Prevost remains more difficult to identify than his predecessors mounted on the throne of Peter.

Today, we receive the journalist Timothy de Rauglaudre, a specialist in religious recompositions, who reacts to the election of the new Pope Leo XIV.

CHRONIC. The election of Leo XIV will not fail to revive the debates on the adaptation of the Catholic Church to the world of today – that is the tension between spiritual and temporal. "The Great Inquisitor", of Dostoevski, emphasizes in his way one of the great challenges of the keepers of the templeIt's a funny thing to be pope, when one thinks about it. Representative of God on earth for a billion and a half thousand, to begin with. But also…

In the aftermath of the election of the new Pope Leo XIV, it is difficult to guess what the orientation of his pontificate will be, both the signals he sends, through his journey and by his first gestures, are ambiguous.

A priori, the election of Leo XIV is the palpable demonstration that the electors cardinals are smarter and more rational than the "media Catholicism" they believe. Surely the ultras of the Church will not be happy because, except the election of a reactionary, they would not be more than 89% of the cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel. Comments on the theological communism of the new Roman pontiff are already read, as well as stupidities of n…

Leo XIV, unlike his three predecessors, is a doctor of canon law. Historian Xavier Boniface wonders if this formation will mark the pontificate of the new pope, in his concerns as well as in his style. He assumes that he could be more measured than Pope Francis in some of his interventions.