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 passed and his second trip outside Italy is planned to the Principality of Monaco.
An important choice, very.
First of all because this transfer takes place during a long pilgrimage between the parishes of the Holy City and the choice of Munich 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 resumed 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 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 deep intimacy of life of the personality and personalities of Christianity.
In the social vision of a Pope called Leo, there is an outpost of Rome.
A vanguard in work and social progress, technology and scientific research.
A Church that plays a leading role, but in a conflicting World acknowledges to Caesar what is Caesar's, testing itself precisely where temptations to overlap might be strong or easier.
Instead, we are in a historical phase where conflicts increase between states in which political personalisation seeks fetishistic idealisation and those where religion imposes the subjugation of civil authority.
In this mounting conflict, there is a Pope who travels the pastoral boundaries with a reassuring respect.
Leo the Great stopped Attila in the confines of respect.
Was it the word respect that we are looking for in today's confusion?
Not a formal respect typical of southern social familism.
A respect in the ability to inhabit borders as load-bearing walls of a common building.
Nicola Tavoletta
