Pope Leo XIV, when he advanced on The Saint-Pierre Basilica loggia Thursday evening To address the crowd, seemed very moved, almost tears in the eyes. A few minutes earlier, he was still an “ordinary” man, if we admit that a cardinal is a man “like the others”, at least a relatively anonymous citizen. What makes a man predestined or not to become a pope? There is necessarily a part of mystery which we will admit that it is unfathomable, and vertiginous destinies.
Indeed, The time of a vote, four elections in the strictest confidentiality, Robert Francis Prevost, member of the Augustins, a begging order concerned with the most suffering, has become the 267th Pope in history. And the one whose life has been scrutinized for a few hours, whose genealogy we look at, The commitment but also the youth and the spiritual journey, is today at the head of a church of 1.4 billion Catholics.
