Pope Leo XIV “couched everything or contextualized everything in the notion of hope” during his inaugural mass, Father Patrick Flanagan, the chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint John’s University said in an interview.
“It’s a new beginning. It’s a new day. No matter what we believe happened during the last 12 years, during Pope Francis, this Pope is a man who is very much self-aware and very much confident,” Flanagan told Newsmax’s “National Report.”
“He’s a smart man. He’s a strategic man, and he wants to bring hope to a broken church and a fractured world. And there’s a great deal of newness and freshness in that, in that beginning.”
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