Pope Francis Changes ancient traditions in Italy, The country where Catholicism was founded in the world. the last Causes confusion. In Florence, a missionary of strong social standing was chosen as archbishop and head of the diocese, as had already happened in Genoa, Turin, Palermo, Naples, Milan, and Venice, where Nor did it create new cardinals. Rome itself, the seat of the Pope, the heir of Saint Peter, It could be next.
Apparently Francisco The new purple color is not expected to be named In these basic seats very important.
With the Cardinal's retirement Giuseppe Bettori For years of service, the Pope officially announced the appointment of a priest of the Diocese of Florence with a long past as a missionary in Africa, Father Gerardo GambelliSo far a priest From the Church of Madonna de la Tosse in Florence.
Don Gerardo was born in 1995 in Viareggio, and was consecrated in 1998 (in Italy the name of the priests is preceded by the word “don”). From 2011 to 2022, he was a missionary in Siad, Africa, and last year he returned to join a parish.
It seems that the criteria for electing the Pope are preferred Important experiences in the social, missionary and pastoral fields. The religious diocese or parish priests.
The Argentine Pope has proven this since the beginning of his term Sensitivity to important academic backgroundto extensive publications and theological excursions, preferably Anonymous people with a strong pastoral vocation.
“smell of sheep”
Francis has emphasized on numerous occasions that “the shepherd must have the scent of the sheep,” in order to make people understand “the need for change in the Church to bring together the lowly and the periphery and the destinies of those who have no voice.” In society,” wrote the morning newspaper “Il Messaggero”.
Pope's decision Not naming cardinals among the heads of the church Of the traditional Italian regions glorify the decision of Jorge Bergoglio After he was appointed cardinal of Bologna Matteo Zoppi, who also appointed him president of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
Matteo Zupi. Photo: ReutersZuppi, considered the “iron Pergoliano”, is a Roman and Today he appears as the most likely candidate to succeed the Pope.
Everyone wonders if, with Florence and the six other former cardinals of Italy, Rome could also suffer the same fate. There is no place more important to the Church than Rome, In which Saint Peter, who was a parish priest in the capital of the Roman Empire and was the first pope to be appointed by a council of all parish priests, set a great precedent for the secret council.
In Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, former parish priest of the Church of San Marco in Piazza Venezia, He was transferred to the Vatican curia He was appointed head of the Apostolic Prison.
Francisco was going to order this in the future Deputy Bishop It is he who will undertake the work of the cardinal's archdiocese, as he has always done in the past.
In the Apostolic Constitution Ecclesiarum Comunione, the Pope decided that the figure of the vicar should in all respects be considered a vicar of the Pope.
Article 2 of the Rules of Procedure for the Vicariate staff states that “the Cardinal Vicar and the Vicar are the Vicars of the Holy Father,” who is above all the Bishop of Rome.
The Vatican author of “Il Messaggero,” Franca Giansolati, wrote that “with these introductions, perhaps, Rome may not have more cardinals in the future“.
