The election of Pope Leo XIV was welcomed with great enthusiasm from the whole Church from the whole Church: immediately after the official priest and religious announcement they crowded their social profiles with messages of gratitude.
“The Holy Spirit gave it to the Church, is a man of faith and spirituality, of culture and depth. Missionary and pastor, in continuity with Francesco for the themes of the previous pontificate but with a secure personal reading that knows of balance and dialogue. Agostino defended Tagaste by the barbarians, Leo Magno from the Huns, Leo XIII from the risks of positivism and Marxism, opening the church of Expedit. when there are problems for the church and for the humanity: here is a lion! ” Don Vincenzo Massimo Majuriprofessor of philosophy at the San Tommaso Theological Institute.
Instead, there are those who thought of writing to Pope Prevost a letter “ideally delivering it”, such as Don Giuseppe Di Stefanoparish priest of the Madonna delle Lacrime community at the Father Annibale village of Bordonaro:
“Dear Leone, welcome between us and thanks for having answered this yet another call of God who expressed himself through the choice of your cardinal brothers. I thought of writing to you to give voice to the thoughts and feelings that live inside me.
I confess that, as soon as I saw you on the balcony of the Loggia and I listened to your first words I cried. You too had wet eyes and, with difficulty, you tried to hold back the tears. Personally I believe that the eyes are able to say more and more than the same words and, above all, the wet eyes of crying, who are a sign of a heart capable of moving, of moving in the direction of the other, to go to him.
“Peace is with all of you,” you told us. The words of the Risen One, repeated you, have made a break – are sure – among the many closed doors and the walls erected to protect our borders. You told us about bridges, you urged us to walk together, hand in the hand between us and with God.
This is why I allow myself to ask you, as a brother, by Cristiano and as a priest: they take care of us, of all, none excluded. Of those who are in the flock and those who remained out, back, hastily stamped as lost.
Do not allow us to use the word of God and the doctrine of the Church as a randello to hit those who do not think like us. That we do not use God and his name to put the door, exclude and select between worthy and unworthy, good and bad.
You urged us to be welcoming like the arms of the colonnade of St. Peter, urged us to always be, not only in words or in the intentions, but with the facts and in the truth. And please, Leone, roar to defend the little ones and shake the consciences asleep in self -sufficiency and in the belief that God is always and only on their side. Ruggisci to break the chains of the agaustizia and abuse by the powerful shifts, to dissolve the easy judgments that we hastily glue on what we call different or irregular.
And forgive me, forgive us, if with too much haste and superficiality we want to pigeonhole in our schemes, decide whether you are more progressive or conservative, more or less in line with our expectations about you. Dear Leone, you, on the other hand, simply be of God and every man loved by him unconditionally. Be a voice of those who have no voice, caress of God for those who have no one “.