Celáa believes that “it would cause great perplexity to believers and not” return to “a more closed church” with the new Pope
The ambassador of Spain in the Vatican, Isabel Celaá, has opined this Friday that “would cause great perplexity to its own and strangers, to believers and not”, that could be returned “to a more closed church” with whom he is chosen as the new Pope after Francisco’s death.
This was stated by the Spanish ambassador in statements to Canal Sur Radio the eve of the funeral for Pope Francis, who died last Monday, April 21.
Isabel Celaá has defended the legacy that this last pontiff leaves, in matters such as “Sinodality, that is, an open church and in contact with the problems of the world, of a world that advances and a church that is open and that also advances,” has abounded.
To the question of whether he believes that all that can change with the successor of Jorge Bergoglio as Pope, Isabel Celaá has replied that he believes no, that “Pope Francis has established a form, such a strong style, so firm, such a deep imprint, that it would cause great perplexity to its own and strangers; that is, to believers and no, that it now returned to a more closed church, more exclusive, more exclusive.
“This I think is not reversible,” said who was also Minister of Education with Pedro Sánchez as president of the Government, and in that line has valued that “Pope Francis was very elegant when he reached his mandate” and starred “gestures” such as maintaining “his usual shoes.” “He was a great communicator”, who “not only communicated with resounding phrases, with headlines, but also through his gestures,” said the ambassador about the last pontiff until now of the Catholic Church.