Pope Leo’s work with migrants is another link to Francis.

In his homily during a mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, the Pope called on the story of Jesus and said that while rich people struck him as an uncomfortable fanatic, ordinary people “not a charlatan but an upright man, someone who speaks well, who speaks well and says the right things.”

But he noticed that she too abandoned him when it became difficult. Even before the first followers of Jesus he was “only a man,” said the pope, and so when he was crucified, they were disappointed and left him.

Leo argued that this was exactly what was going on today, with a lot of bulbs – read: mass media, pop culture, government elections, academic world, Silicon Valley – regarded Christianity as “absurd, intended for the weak and non -intelligent.”

He is a former leader of the international and intellectual rigorous order named after St. Augustine, the bishop and writer of the fourth century whose vision on the center of faith again defined the church and Western culture by helping, and Tar, the once influential Greek philosophy of epicurism. That worldview, which had a support in some elite old Roman circles, gave priority to happiness through a moderate pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.

The new pope seemed to echo Augustine when he complained about those “institutions where other effects are preferred, such as technology, money, success, power or pleasure.”

By talking to all this in his first homily, the new pope indicated that he would make the gospel of the gospel to this enemy area a priority of his pontificate, in strong continuity with Francis.

Part of the homily sounded like a mission statement: “These are contexts in which it is not easy to preach the gospel and witness its truth, where believers are mocked, opposed, despised or tolerated at best and peinied. Yet exactly for this reason that our missionary and so many weeds are necessary, the crisisy of our missionary and so -called outstrache, are the crisis of the missionary and so -called Wannhtiektieke. playing society.

He added, emphatically that nominal believers also occupy these institutions, people who treat Jesus as a superhero instead of someone who led through his actions, and whose actions should think true believers. He said these Christians live like de facto atheists.

The Paus born in Chicago went to Peru as a missionary, and his mission ethos made it impressed by Francisc A position to become Pope. He ended by telling the cardinals that, just like Francis, he saw himself as a simple missionary with spreading the gospel through his actions. Francis made it a habit of exciting cardinals because they placed themselves above their herds, because they live and forget what they were there for. Leo also reminded the cardinals who were drawn up for him, in less hard but no less uncertain terms, that their task was also simple missionaries.

To emphasize this, the Pope spoke about an old saint who welcomed his coming martyrdom – devoured by wild animals in a Roman arena – because it would remove his body from the photo and shine his missionary faith.

“His words generally apply to an indispensable dedication for everyone in the church who exercises a ministry of authority,” said Leo. He argued that the duty of the cardinals was not central, but to “go aside” and “make himself small” so that faith could grow and spread.

“I first say this to myself,” he added.