Vatican City (AP) – When Pope Leo XIV Surprised thousands Among the young people in a recent celebration with an impromptu popmobile romp around the St. Peter Square, it seemed among the young people, such as some informal sponsorship which was characterized by 12 -year -old Papsi of Pope Francis, returned to the Vatican.
But the message given by Leo that night was all his own: In uninterrupted English, Spanish and Italian, Leo told the young people that they were “salt of the earth, the light of the world”. He urged him that he urges his hope, faith in Christ and wherever he goes to spread his cry of peace.
As Robert Prevost has marked its 100th day as Pope Leo later this week, the figure of his ponten has begun to come in relief, mainly where he shows continuity with Francis and where he indicates. Perhaps the biggest tech is that sometime after 12 Turbulent year Under Francis, a certain quiet and reserve have returned to Papasi.
Leo seems eager to avoid polytimics or to make a sinner about himself, and wants to focus on Christ and peace instead.
It seems that many Catholic loyalists want, and can answer what today’s church needs.
“He is very direct and clear … but he is not hitting a spontaneous press hit,” said Kevin Hughes, president of theology and religious studies at Leo’s Alma Matter, University of Wilnoova, at the University of Villonova. ” Hughes said in a telephone interview, Leo has a different style than Francis, and it is giving relief to many people.
Hughes said, “Even those who really loved Pope Francis, they always held their breath a little: You didn’t know what was going to come or what he was going to do.”
Attempt to avoid polyimics
Leo has certainly gone out of its way to try to fix the divisions in its first 100 days in its first 100 days, which was introduced deeply during Francis’ Ponten Message of unity And avoid dispute at almost every turn. Even his signature issue – face promises and crisis artificial intelligence – There is something that consists of conservative and progressives equally. Francis’s emphasis on the care of environment and migrants often distinguishes conservatives.
Close to the house, Leo offered to assure Holi C Bureau, sometimes after Francis’ sometimes the powerful style of the Vatican, a confident, consent message after rubbing something wrongly in the Vatican.
Leo told the Vatican officials immediately after his 8 May election, “Putrases come and go, but Curia remains.”
Continuation with Francis is still undisputed
However, Leo has strengthened Francis’ environmental heritage by celebrating for the first time. Ecosytefully inspired mass. He has carried forward that heritage by giving a go-forever for the Vatican to convert the 430-hectare (1,000 acres) area to a huge solar farm to the north of Rome. Carbon-plate states.
They have financial transparency rules, which Francis started, changed some other decree to give them continuity and arguments, and confirmed Francis in deciding to declare one of the most influential saints of the 19th century, John Henry PneumonA “doctor” of the church.
“They have not made any major appointments including filling their old jobs, or making any big journey.
In marking the 80th anniversary of the American nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki last week, he had a chance to match Francis’s novel announcement that nuclear weapons were just occupied. “Immoral.” But he did not.
Compared to President Donald Trump, other American world leaders who took over in 2025 with a hurry to the sharpie-pended executive decree, Leo tried not to draw attention to themselves slowly, deliberately and quietly in his new job.
At the age of 69, they find out that they have time, and after the revolutionary sinner of Francis, the church may require some relief. A Vatican officer who knows Leo said that he hoped that his sinner will have an impact of “quiet rain” on the church.
A Peru member of a Catholic charismatic group Maria Isabel Ibasena Kurite said it was a quiet emphasis on the church’s traditions, its rites and the love of Christ, which attracted her further. 1 million young people This month for a special Jubilee week for Rome.
Ibarasena said that Francis had confused youth like himself with his outreach for LGBTQ+ Catholics and approved blessings for equal-lingo couples. He went beyond such gestures as to what to do to the Pope and what the church taught, he thought.
Leo, he said, emphasized that marriage is a rite between men and women. “Francis was unclear, but he is firm,” he said.
A Augustinian Pope
With his first appearance on St. Peter Basilica’s loggia, Leo has insisted that he is the first and at the forefront St. Augustine. “It was a reference to St. Augstein of Hippo, a devotional veteran of the fifth -century religious and devotion, who inspired the 13th -century religious Augustinian order as a community of” Mendicant “Freres.
Like other large mendicant orders of the early church – Franciscons, Dominican and Carmelights – Augustinians spread to Christians for centuries. Today, Augustinian is inherent in a deep inner life of spirituality prayer, living in the community, and traveling together in God in search of truth.
In almost every speech or Homili since the election of May 8, Leo has quoted Agstein In a way or any other.
Professor Hughes of theology said, “I look at the Augustinian taste in this way that he is presenting all these things.”
Leo joined Augustinians after graduating from Wilnova operated by Augustinian outside Philadelphia, and was twice elected to normal. He has visited the Augstinion headquarters of St. Peter for some time since his election, and some wonder if he will invite some brothers to stay with him at the Apostolic Palace so that he can recreate the spirit of the Augstinian community.
A missionary Pope in Francis’s image
Leo is also a product of Francis Papasi. Francis named prevost bishop Chiclayo, Peru, In 2014 and then in 2023 it was taken to one of the most important Vatican jobs – Bishop Nomination. In retrospect, it seems that Francis had kept an eye on the prevost as a possible successor.
given Francis stump speech Prior to the 2013 Conclave, the then Cardinal George Mario Bergoglio, the then Cardinal George Mario Bergoglio, today essentially described Prevost in identifying the mission of the church: he said that the church was “called to go out of itself and go to the circumference, not only geographical, but also existence.”
Prevost, who is from Chicago, spent his adult life as a missionary in Peru, eventually became a bishop of Chikleyo.
“He is an incarnation of ‘unity of differences’, as he comes from the center, but he lives in the perimeter,” said Emillas Quda, Secretary, Pontapical Commission for Latin America.
The CUDA said during a recent conference organized by the University of Georgetown that Leo promoted the type of Missionary Church Francis in “Word and Ishara”.
He said, for all Leo, for Bergoglio, both were not necessary.
Prevost has said that at one point when he was the Augustinian superior, the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires expressed interest in handing over an Augstinian priest for a specific job in his archdiC.
“And I, as the first general said, ‘I understand, your abundance, but he got to do something else” and so I moved her elsewhere, “Prevost told the Parisian in his home state of Illinois in 2024.
Prevost said that he “innocent” thought that Francis would not remember him after his 2013 election, and regardless that “he would never appoint me a bishop” disagreement.
Bergoglio not only made him a bishop, he first placed a groundwork for prevost to succeed as the first North American Pope after South American.
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Nicole Winfield, Associated Press