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Leo XIV: The Silence That Weighs Heavier Than Words

One image will remain etched in the collective memory, shrouded in many doubts: Pope Francis, alone, in the rain, in an empty St. Peter's Square. But this solitude can no longer be interpreted solely as a symbol of a wounded humanity; it represents a fracture—one between a Church that celebrated in the absence of its people and a people who, in their moment of most extreme suffering, were left outside.