A year ago we welcomed with joy the news of the ’white smoke“ announcing the election of Pope Leo XIV. I saw the first images of the Holy Father while I was in Genoa and I commented with a free burst of euphoria on the choice of the Cardinals. A year has gone by and his second trip outside Italy is planned to the Principality of Monaco. An important choice, very. First of all because this trip comes during a long pilgrimage between the Holy City's parishes and the choice of Monaco is like a continuum. Rome is the city of the Pope, while in the Principality the Catholic Religion is the State Religion. Pope Leo XIV takes up the capillarity of St. John Paul II's pastoral visits, starting from the intimacy of the places of Catholic history, as well as those of spirituality. It seems to set up the Church's home for those who are spiritual and intellectual exiles; a reassuring domesticity. Of course every place is Church, but here, in these places, between Rome and Munich, there is a profound intimacy of life of the personality and personalities of Christianity. In the social vision of a Pope called Leo, there is Monaco an outpost of Rome. An avant-garde in work and