{"id":130530,"date":"2025-05-09T04:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/leon-xiv-a-pope-of-balance-and-appeasement\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T04:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:04:48","slug":"leon-xiv-a-pope-of-balance-and-appeasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/leon-xiv-a-pope-of-balance-and-appeasement\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon XIV, a pope &#8220;of balance&#8221; and appeasement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">When his name was pronounced, there was as a murmur of misunderstanding in the crowd gathered on Saint-Pierre square, in Rome. <em>&#8220;Prevost?&#8221; Who is it ? \u00bb\u00bb<\/em> In the race for the throne of Peter, the observers saw in him a serious candidate, for his ability to collect and appease the Church. But, for the general public, Robert Francis Prevost, 267\u1d49 Pope of the Catholic Church and the first coming from the United States, is an unknown.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<div class=\"catcher__content\"><span class=\"catcher__title catcher__title--hide\">Read also |<\/span><span class=\"catcher__desc\">    Live, new pope: L\u00e9on XIV launches a &#8220;appeal of peace&#8221; to &#8220;all peoples&#8221;, reactions flock from all over the world <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3420263\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/live\/2025\/05\/08\/en-direct-un-nouveau-pape-a-ete-elu-de-la-fumee-blanche-s-eleve-au-dessus-du-vatican_6604053_3210.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">When the white smoke appeared at the Chapel Sistine chapel on Thursday, May 8 shortly after 6 p.m., onlookers were still betting on the victory of Pietro Parolin, former number two of Fran\u00e7ois and the announced voting. <em>&#8220;It will be him, Parolin, with the name of reign Paul VII&#8221;<\/em>predicted two French priests. The speed with which the election was played (four towers, twenty-four hours of conclave) had to strengthen this hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">It will therefore be Robert PREVOST, from the Order of Saint-Augustin, with the name of reign L\u00e9on XIV. This choice places the new pontiff in the continuity of L\u00e9on XIII, the Pope who forged the social doctrine of the Church, in particular through the encyclical <em>Novarum rerum (<\/em>&#8220;New things&#8221;), published in 1891. Clearly, the promise of a pontificate anchored in modernity and concerned with the poor, margins, excluded &#8211; <em>&#8220;Peripheries&#8221;<\/em>would have said Fran\u00e7ois, to whom L\u00e9on XIV paid a supported tribute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media article__media--mlarge\"> <img viewbox=\"0 0 664 443\" srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/08\/0\/0\/6000\/4000\/1080\/0\/75\/0\/7f6865d_ftp-import-images-1-8t0mtcjdlzbu-5838512-01-06.jpg 1x, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/08\/0\/0\/6000\/4000\/2160\/0\/45\/0\/7f6865d_ftp-import-images-1-8t0mtcjdlzbu-5838512-01-06.jpg 2x, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/08\/0\/0\/6000\/4000\/3240\/0\/45\/0\/7f6865d_ftp-import-images-1-8t0mtcjdlzbu-5838512-01-06.jpg 3x, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2025\/05\/08\/0\/0\/6000\/4000\/4320\/0\/45\/0\/7f6865d_ftp-import-images-1-8t0mtcjdlzbu-5838512-01-06.jpg 4x\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\" alt=\"On Place Saint-Pierre after white smoke was raised from the sixtine chapel chimney, indicating that the cardinals elected a new pope, at the Vatican, on May 8, 2025.\"\/><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">On Place Saint-Pierre after white smoke was raised from the sixtine chapel chimney, indicating that the cardinals elected a new pope, at the Vatican, on May 8, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Jeff Pacoud \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 88.61% of this article to read. 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