- Feb 5, 2002
- 180,316
- 64,948
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Female
- Faith
- Catholic
- Marital Status
- Married
- Politics
- US-Others
Cardinal Hollerich. "We have not elected an anti-Trump Pope. He will last much longer"
"It will be a pontificate in continuity with the teaching of Pope Francis. And I am very happy about that. It is what the majority of cardinals wanted". Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has a smiling face, even if he does not hide his tiredness. "These have been intense days", he confides. Both those of the General Congregations and those of the Conclave that elected Leo XIV. "It actually took us twenty-four hours to choose the new Pope," the Archbishop of Luxembourg tells Avvenire. Sixty-six years old, with a gentle but firm manner, he immediately adds: "I believe it will be my first and last Conclave. Because I wish the Pope a long life." The new Pontiff is an Augustinian. And Hollerich is a Jesuit like Francis who has made synodality one of the hallmarks of his pontificate. A dimension dear to the Luxembourg cardinal who is a tenacious supporter of it and who was general rapporteur at the last Synod. "Pope Leo - he explains - spoke of a "synodal Church" in his first message. Having participated in the work of the Synod, we have a Pontiff who knows synodality, who understands synodality, who dares synodality. There will be no revolution that no one in the Church wants, but an evolution, yes. And it is the best way to change."
Continued below.
"It will be a pontificate in continuity with the teaching of Pope Francis. And I am very happy about that. It is what the majority of cardinals wanted". Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has a smiling face, even if he does not hide his tiredness. "These have been intense days", he confides. Both those of the General Congregations and those of the Conclave that elected Leo XIV. "It actually took us twenty-four hours to choose the new Pope," the Archbishop of Luxembourg tells Avvenire. Sixty-six years old, with a gentle but firm manner, he immediately adds: "I believe it will be my first and last Conclave. Because I wish the Pope a long life." The new Pontiff is an Augustinian. And Hollerich is a Jesuit like Francis who has made synodality one of the hallmarks of his pontificate. A dimension dear to the Luxembourg cardinal who is a tenacious supporter of it and who was general rapporteur at the last Synod. "Pope Leo - he explains - spoke of a "synodal Church" in his first message. Having participated in the work of the Synod, we have a Pontiff who knows synodality, who understands synodality, who dares synodality. There will be no revolution that no one in the Church wants, but an evolution, yes. And it is the best way to change."
Continued below.
