Returned to Castel Gandolfo: "We Do Not Need Too Many Pastoral Plans"
Pope Leo XIV held his final Angelus today before returning to Castel Gandolfo: "This afternoon, I will go to Castel Gandolfo, where I plan to rest for a short time. I hope everyone has the opportunity to enjoy a vacation and refresh their body and spirit."
Echoing Pope Francis who used similar words while doing the opposite, he called for emphasizing pastoral and personal conversion rather than structures: "We do not need too many theoretical ideas about pastoral plans. Instead, we need to pray to the Lord of the harvest."
Further, he demanded peace that is "a desire of all peoples": "It is the painful cry of those torn apart by war. Let us ask the Lord to inspire the minds of governments, so that they may replace the violence of weapons with the search for dialogue."
Finally, the pope addressed the floods in Texas in English (video below): "I would like to express my sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters who were at summer camp …More
Pope Leo urges prayer for all the victims of the Texas flood, closing his Angelus today: “I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters, who were at the summer camp, in the disaster caused by flooding of the Guadalupe river in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.”
This duality that Pope Prevost has manifested since the beginning of his pontificate, in Which he sometimes embraces modernism and other times traditionalism, makes me suspect that this Pope is the Pope that will fulfill the message of Fatima, when, at the end of time and after a great chastisement, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will arrive.