‘You have to see how Vatican diplomacy will be given with the US’

There are contradictory readings about the new Pope. Some say they are far from Francisco and who says he is close.Firstly, it was Pope Francis who made him Cardinal and who named him to lead the dickerbean of the bishops. This demonstrates that there must be some proximity to Francis. On the day of the election, at the varying of St. Peter, he quoted Pope Francis several times, and not only with secondary issues, he even talked about Synod and Synodality. It seems to me that they are signs that there will be continuity.

Given that the synodal process was extended until 2028…
Yes, the process must have been finalized and it was not. Which means that Pope Leo XIV is interested in the process of the Synod to continue to advance.

Some say this Pope is following a deeper way than Francis, betting more on indoctrination.If anyone says that is because they have not realized anything that has happened in the church in the last 12 years. This is even a dishonest way of trying to claim that Pope Francis had moral or social concerns, but that they were not spiritual or religious. It’s an injustice, or rather it’s fake, it’s a lie.

What will be curious to follow in the near time in this papacy?
To realize how Vatican diplomacy will relate to US diplomacy. It seems to me that in the near future we will not see or approach, nor removal from the Pope from the US. But Vatican diplomacy may demonstrate approximation or removal. And this is a very interesting thing.

Is there any resemblance, even if too much, regarding the appointment of John Paul II and communism?
In what sense?

In the sense that Vatican’s diplomacy if a cut with the US government will be cut, and this will imply a cut with much of the American church, it will be doing the same as the Vatican did in the time of John Paul II with communism.
What interests me most to realize if it will happen is not if there will be removal, but it is if there will be approximation. The removal is what the news shows from the past, the Cardinal Prevost, in the issue of immigration, for example, or what the charity and love of neighbor means, different from what is practical in the present American administration. It would be interesting to realize that approaches are possible and in what areas of life, society, culture… The US has a huge amount of Catholics that take their lives, social, political and economic, etc., and it is necessary to recognize the good that also exists there.

The ordinary of mortals wants to know if the new Pope will bet on the end of celibacy of priests, in the ordering of women and so on.
This question has been being asked for over ten years, since the exhortation Amoris Laetittia, and that famous footnote. I understand that people want an answer, but what the church has done for the past 12 years is an honest way to ask these questions and give time to the answer to be hurriedly. And because of that, the synod was launched to the Amazon, the bell on synodality

Don’t you think there is the danger of the Germans to stretch the rope? I read somewhere that was Pope Leo XIV who managed to ‘calm’ the German church during the crisis of the Synodal Way.
I also read that. But a week after the election of a new Pope what we need is of time, and it is serenity, calm and let the Pope give to the church what he has to give, and let the church receive from the Pope what it has to receive.

I see that you are hopefully in the new pontificate.
Yes, huge hope.