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“Pope Francis was the anti-Trump”

Professor Andrea Riccardi and Pope Francis, during a visit to the community of Sant’Egidio, in Rome, March 11, 2018. MAX ROSSI / REUTERS

Rome waits in the sun to change the time. Pope Francis died. His successor on the stone throne must be appointed after a conclave which will be held from Wednesday, May 7. Whatever his identity and whatever he makes the heritage of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, one of the cardinals who have already found themselves in the Vatican will reign on the Catholic Church in a world which is no longer that where the deceased Pope had imposed his mark. The start of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House opened a new era based on the balance of power, opening the way to a hard and triumphant right.

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So, in his headquarters installed since 1973 between the walls of an old Carmelite convent in Trastevere, on a placet at the pastel facades traveled by clusters of tourists and guarded by a military vehicle, Andrea Riccardi, 75, is concerned. Founder of the influential international Catholic movement Sant’Egidio, historian of the Church, former minister, presented by the center left at the time of the election of the President of the Italian Republic, in 2022, as having the “Ideal profile” To receive the supreme charge, the one called “The teacher” was also a relative of François.

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