For Catholics, the Pope is the Holy Father. For the world, it is a strong voice

A few days later, from the fourteenth papacy of Liu, the new Pope began his vision of how to lead the Catholic Church.

Like his predecessor, he plans to embrace the poor and the marginalized. He wants to continue the efforts of Francis to open the Vatican doors and Listen to many voices outside the hierarchy of the church. In a clear sign that this Pope is competing with the largest tests of modernity, he said that the church will deal with the challenge that artificial intelligence will form “human dignity, justice and action.”

As a leader of approximately 1.4 billion followers, a population equal to the size of China or India, Pope Liu’s words are important to nearly one of every six people in the world. He also has a strong global platform, so the issues that he chooses to focus can win more than the Catholic brothers.

He did not mention the energy of Francis, the charisma and mercy, only Catholics, but they are from other religions and in secular circles that the Pope could be a general voice in moral life.

Francis took over the cloak of the poor and immigrants, as well as the urgent need to respond to climate change. He was a man of strong gestures, such as taking his first official journey to LampedosThe small Mediterranean island, where thousands of descendants and the desirable speakers sought to enter Europe, or Visiting prisons to kiss the prisoners. Before he was hospitalized in February, The collective deportation policies took President Trump, describing them as a violation of “the dignity of many men and women, and entire families.”

Leo takes over the papacy at a time forced in global affairs. Wars are fought on many fronts, the political field in many countries is polarized, and the high economic inequality and people are struggling to make basic human ties through a sea of ​​misinformation and transformation on social media.

The priest, Dr. William J. Barber II, Protestant Minister and Founder Director of the General Theology and Public Policy at Yale Delaty School: “We are in a moment when the moral powers in the world and religious forces in the world bear a deep responsibility to say that they should not be this way.”

Each Pope uses its global platform to emphasize some issues. John Paul II He played an important role in the collapse of Soviet and European communism, as he planted the seeds of the workers’ movement of solidarity in Poland when he visited him first as a pawn for his country of origin. Millions of people came to hear him speaking, and behaves independently of the Communist government, which encouraged them to protest against their authoritarian leaders.

Pordek 16The conservative researcher who sought the church to the basic doctrine, emerged as American war critic in Iraq and Environmental protection hero.

Popes do not always represent moral integrity. In the most obvious example, the credibility of the Catholic Church was severely undermined The large -scale sexual assault crisis Survivors and critics said about Pontifes Multi -misdemeanors.

Scientists still discuss whether it is Pius 12During World War II, the Pope is aware of the Holocaust and did not face Hitler, or he remained silent publicly because he was secretly arranged – or at least allowing – local Catholics to save the Jews from the Nazis.

The global recognition of the Pope allows him to speak unique force. As a character that goes beyond national interests, he can push political leaders to act for the collective good.

Francis, for example, in 2015 wrote The first papal encyclopedia To focus on the environment, climate change is described as a threat to the greatest consequences on the shoulders of the poor. In the same year, 195 countries signed a prominent agreement in Paris, and at least 10 leaders in the world were martyred in the words of the Pope during the titles of the United Nations Climate Conference.

Nevertheless, the influence on the Pope has its limits, according to the mercury transformations of international policy, cultural battles and macroeconomic turmoil. It is often one of the most important Catholic principles – that call for peace – the most difficult goal to reach.

Francis said he was on a “secret mission” to stop the war between Russia and UkraineGoing on his hands and knees Kissing the feet Among the warring leaders of the government of South Sudan and its opposition, and in his last speech on Easter before his death, made explicit calls for peace in Ukraine and GazaThat Leo repeated again on Sunday.

As one voice on the world stage, the Pope’s ability to organize change depends on the global political context. Francis became the Pope at a time when there were natural allies like former President Barack Obama in the United States and former Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, which supported his friendly message to immigrants. By the time when Francis died, the world turned into a more environmentally exciting thing, with President Trump in the United States, Victor Urban in Hungary and Georgia Meloni in Italy.

Miles Patinden, a historian of Oxford, who studies the Catholic Church, said that Pope Francis “missed the times that migrant issues are more complicated and there are differentials.” He added: If the new Pope, “continues and continues to say what Francis did, he will become more marginal.”

On some Issues in the Culture War, activists on both sides may seek to demand the new Pope as their property. The liberals will embrace his call on behalf of Displayed. Conservatives will urge Liu to adhere to the current Catholic doctrine on issues such as gay marriage.

In the United States, where the new Pope was born and raised, some hope will continue the role of Francis as a budget for President Trump’s work to combat immigrants. “With the presence of the religious right in the United States in the United States, he claims that their faith supports their political views, and has the Pope from the United States,” said Keira Joel, a Buddhist author and a teacher in the United States, who claims that their faith supports their political views, and has the Pope from the United States, “which can challenge some Trump’s statements” important. “

It is too early to know how Pope Liu will play his voice outside the church. Religious leaders warn against overcoming it in elegant political frameworks.

Graham Tomlin, director of the Cultural Witness Center and Kinsington Bishop in the Anglican Church, said that people tend to offer their desire to play the Pope for their team, and ask, “Is he a supporter of Trump or is he against Trump, as if Trump was the only thing that matters in the world.” “But in reality, the left right pole misses only all interesting things about religion.”

Many electoral districts want the Pope talk about the causes of their pets, but he can also talk about the desire for decency and the main acceptance through religion.

“If what he says and what he represents is to honor all different people on Earth, then this is a person in power with a lot of influence that can say these things,” said Samantha Berman, 31, who is a Jew and originally originally from Connecticut, but he studies art in Rome.

She said alone could “make many people feel vision, hear, love.”

Josephine de la Broeier Elizabeta Povulido contributed to the reports from Rome.