Not My Own Agenda, Lord, But Yours

Habemus Papam! (We have a Pope!) Hope surged through me as the newly elected Pope walked out onto the balcony in St. Peter’s square. Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, offered peace to the people of God. He will steer the ship in his own unique way, charting a course in the trajectory of Pope Francis. And, yet, he is not Francis.