The joy of American tourists in St Peter's Square was huge, any danced...And specified a conclave consequence did not mean that it was a pro-American choice. It was a choice with a peculiar vision, due to the fact that with both Americas in mind, due to the fact that besides Latin America through the Peruvian context. Cardinal Provost besides owned the nationality of Peru, where he spent many years on a mission, and he himself came from a multiethnic family: his father was French (with an admixture of Italian blood), a Spanish mother. Conclave so chose as if a "planetary man" (hombre planetrio) which corresponded to the concept of the celebrated Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, known not only in Latin circles but besides in Europe. The fresh Pope's fresh Year's Eve was greeted with enthusiasm in many countries and dioceses, besides on the Internet, where e.g. Mexican Padre Arturo Lopez Cornejo claimed that he had a imagination of Cardinal Provost's election and had unusual predictions about his pontificate, adequate that the bishops of Mexico had forbidden him these online talks. Indeed, prophecy besides frequently fails, and the books of prophecy, e.g. the celebrated Nostradamus, are fraught with the fact that different editions present different centres and their interpretations. Many years ago, I threw his prophetic robbers into the dumpster. Now, trust in the prophecy besides moved, due to the fact that many people expected to elect a cardinal from Africa. . individual will say that it may come actual in the future, okay. However, let us not waste time on this, and let us besides note the comments of Archbishop Mark Jędraszewski, who pointed to St Augustine as the spiritual predecessor of the fresh pope, due to the fact that St Augustine, in the hard times of the fall of the Roman Empire, undertook to lead the Christians on his way to the Father's House. This is simply a clear parallel to the hard times of our present, possibly more hard as we can see, and for many who match a demented era. But the recently elected Pope is – like all Holy Father – Peter or Rock, a stone of religion for all God's people, and this sounded clearly from his first message – as the Archbishop of Krakow said... Leon XIV is the first Augustian Pope, since his youth associated with this order, and the second “Latinos” (from Chicago) on the capital of Peter, bound for many years with Peru - an area for a mission highly hard and dangerous due to the Maoist guerrilla (inspired by Marx, Lenin and “Che” Guevary) Sendero Luminoso. It was in Peru that 2 Polish Franciscan missionaries died in martyrdom, Fr Michał Tomaszek and brother Zbigniew Strałkowski, giving their lives for their religion (August 9, 1991) and for helping the mediocre who were given food and medicine from Caritas, besides preached the Gospel... Pope Francis beatified them on December 5, 2015, and it was celebrated in Peru. And did Leon XIV meet them alive?
Leon's name refers to Pope Leon XIII (1878-1903), whose greatness was to take on the problems of the prime capitalism era, and he met them as an apostolic nuncio in Brussels in 1843. In London, he besides saw poorness and consulted Manning, a bishop of the poor. He was a alien to the ideas of Knights of Labour in the United States, and Christian tradition since St. Vincent and Paulo lived in the works of bishops specified as La Tour du Pin or von Ketteler, who published the work "Working substance and Christianity" in 1854. Leon XIII besides sought a prescription for these problems, as Marx's mistaken explanation only set a trap for all mankind. And that is why, as Pope Leon XIII, he will compose in the encyclical “Rerum Novarum” ( 15.V.1891) that “it was a fundamental mistake to proclaim class conflict and consider them enemies, due to the fact that rich and proletarians should not be in a conflict ruthless. On the contrary, both these classes needed each other: capital without workers and workers without capital (which gives them work) cannot exist.” By introducing “hate” between Marx's classes, however, he ruined the chance to improvement capitalism in advance, which was successful in Western countries, thanks to Leon XIII's path. Only in Russia, engulfed with bloody revolution and violence, as well as Lenin's criminal ideas - see his telegrams to the checkers: “Sow a 100 kulaks so that people can see...take their grain (10 August 1918). Millions died, not just “cuckoos”. This hatred was the engine of the fresh strategy ("Black Book of Communism", p.85). Its next detonation after 1945 and fresh red panic took place in east Europe – from Bulgaria to Berlin – erstwhile Stalin built the russian empire, utilizing concessions from Yalta and killed the masses of people resisting Sovietization.
Meanwhile, in the West, workers gradually prospered, so it was the Church that did much more for humanity than Marx with Engels, who had only poisoned the minds of millions, and in countries mastered by the Communist Manifest there was no promised prosperity, as the organization became a collective capitalist (the word Alain Besancon) and oppressed workers. The leaders of communism then made this hatred of Marx sown between the classes crawl into a category of hatred between countries possessed by Marxism-Leninism and countries of democracy. And today, there could be a spark of the 3rd planet War. Therefore, the late Pope Francis frequently appealed for peace, and Leon XIV's first statements besides requested the cessation of wars, especially in Ukraine and the mediate East conflict. And Leon XIV urges the Christians there to stay in their lands. The phenomenon of the war between India and Pakistan is something new, and in the Asia zone, there are increasing conflicts fueled by the expansion of China and the aggression of North Korea, and Russia's intentions towards the Baltic republics, as well as threats to Finland and Poland, cannot be ignored. Leon XIV – the apostle of peace and the spiritual brother of Francis in this respect – will most likely see his pontificate in the clouds of dangerous clashes and the spectrum of even atomic destruction. Russia and North Korea's leaders are openly talking about this, so the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade was right to call humanity a “primitive tribe of death”. Our sick age besides carries another dangers and dilemmas, we will see how Leon XIV will solve them, possibly little "progressive" than his predecessor. The French "Le Point" (May 14th) says that the fresh Pope already divides Catholics in the US, and is reported to be sometimes and "anti-Trump" e.g. on the issue of immigrants. And as with the synodic way, which utilized in Germany almost brought annihilation to the German church. So it is not the way recommended for the good of mankind. For now, however, the issue of peace seems dominant and most important, with another clouds on the horizon fading.
Marek Baterovich
May 16, 2025
