“Habemus Papam”. After the Blanca Smoked on Thursday in the Vatican to the new Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the eyes of the whole world are put in the chosen one after the conclave, which has opted for the name of XIV lion For your papacy.
With their appointment, news has come to light as, which he directed until 2023, although from the diocese themselves have denied these accusations.
The first speech from his Vatican balcony showed his vocation for a “open” and “” church. “We must seek together how to be a missionary church, a church that builds bridges,” he said in his first words from the Basilica of San Pedro, where he has called for peace and unity.
However, although many predict that Prevost will follow Francisco’s continuist line when he was appointed by him, in social aspects such as the perspective on the LGTBIQ+ collective and equal marriage between them is different.
These are some of Premost’s ideas regarding some of the social subjects such as immigration, climate change, women’s participation in the church or the LGTBIQ+ collective They show their ideas.
“Gender ideology” and a condemnation open to what calls “homosexual lifestyle”
Far from the open position that Pope Francis maintained during his papacy, who first received in the Vatican to trans people and approved the blessing to unions of same -sex people, Leo XIV remains with respect to the LGTBIQ+ collective in the most traditional position of the Church, considering it “contrary to the Gospel.”
In fact, after the publication of the declaration Confidence in supplicating Of 2023, specifically in 2024, Prevost made a statement that its application would not be feasible. “In Africa, our cultural reality is very different … the doctrinal authority of Rome is not being rejected, but that our cultural situation makes the application of this document viable,” he said channeling the alleged discomfort of African bishops.
His greatest sample of this was his speech in the World Synod of Bishops held in 2012, where he described that the “homosexual lifestyle” as contrary to Christian values. “Western media are extraordinarily effective in promoting in the general public a huge sympathy for beliefs and practices that disagree with the Gospel, for example abortion, homosexual lifestyle, euthanasia,” he said, as he states.
In that same speech he described the movement in favor of the rights of trans people and the LGTBIQ+ collective of spreading “gender ideology”, a term widely used by the ultra -right sectors, and said that the cause of that confusion would be that “it intends to create genres that do not exist.”
In addition, he complained that the “Catholic shepherds who preach against the legalization of abortion or the redefinition of marriage are portrayed as ideologically, severe and indifferent people.”
He also stressed that what he called “alternative families” composed of “same couples and their adopted children are portrayed in a bens Modern Family y The New Normal.
To counteract him, he asked to make a “new evangelization to counteract these distortions of religious and ethical reality produced by the media.”
“It is not justified that women are ordered as priests”
With respect to another of the great recent debates of the Catholic Church on whether or not women be ordered as priests, Prevost has been openly shown against. In the Synod about the synodality of 2023, he said that the ordination of women does not solve the problem of inequality, and warned that “clericalize” women could offer even new challenges.
“It is true that women make a significant contribution to the life of the Church, but this does not justify that they should be ordered as priests,” said the current Pope.
Despite his statements, Prevost saw the appointment in high positions of the Vatican as Sor Raffaella Petrini as president of the Government of the State of the city of the Vatican or María Luisa Berzosa, a religious of the Daughters of Jesus, as a consultant of the Synod of the Bishops, as an “enrichment”.
“His point of view is an enrichment. Two are religious and one is secular, and many times his point of view coincides perfectly with what the other members of the Dicastery say; while other times, his opinion introduces another perspective and becomes an important contribution to the process,”
“I think his appointment is more than a gesture of the Pope to say that now there are women here. There is a real, genuine and significant participation that they offer in our meetings when we discuss the files of the candidates,” he added.
It is necessary to pass “from the word to action” against climate change
More open has been shown with problems such as climate change, which he himself described as a “social” problem in the 2024 seminar Address the problems of the environmental crisis in the light of laudato si and laudate deum, experiences in Latin America where he claimed that “we face a crisis that is not only environmental, but also social.”
Prevost, who was in charge of opening the encounter as collected stressed the urgency of passing “from the word to action” in the face of the severity of the climatic emergency.
Then, he also asked not to maintain a “tyrannical” and “despot” relationship with nature that “benefits a few” but is “reciprocal with the environment” in a responsible and controlled way.
He also warned of the “harmful” consequences of technological advances and highlighted the commitment of the Holy See with sustainability and gave as an example the transition to electric vehicles or the installation of solar panels such as “significant gestures.”
“Migration is part of the mission of Christ”
The position contrary to the migratory and xenophobic policies of rulers such as Donald Trump or Giorgia Meloni marked Francisco’s papacy, who made his first trip as Pope to Lampedusa Island, where he assured that he was also the son of migrants. And, in this sense, Leo XIV is postulated in a continuous line.
“Migration is part of the mission of Christ,” he said during his stay in Peru, where he was especially involved in supporting the more than 1.5 million Venezuelan migrants transferred to the Andean country.
But he has also done so on social networks, specifically in his X profile, where he has manifestly criticized the measures taken by the Trump administration in relation to deportations of migrants from the United States.
On April 14, he shared an article from titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not want us to hierarchy our love for others.”
