If a pleasant and cordial personality is a reliable indication, the Roman Catholic Church can look forward to calmer days under its new pope, Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, than it was accustomed to under the unpredictable papacy of his predecessor Pope Francis.
More productive days too, in its mission to spread the Gospel with greater doctrinal and moral clarity after the confusing and at times deliberate ambivalence generated by many of Francis’s utterances, particularly his off-the-cuff ones.
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