Both the media and social media are already starting to dig up soundbites from the past about the new Pope trying to create a narrative about who he is, and who he will be. The media often trawl through a person’s past looking for things they might have said 10-20 years ago as though people do not evolve in their perspectives and change their minds. The corporate media and social media can act like scavenger dogs looking for scraps of data to bring to the feet of their ego, in order to accuse and besmirch with toxic cynicism. In a recent interview the Pope’s brother, John Prevost, said that Pope Leo won’t be a an ultra conservative or an ultra liberal but will be “right down the middle”. This position is a stabilising position whilst the world currently gyrates in a state of chaotic flux.
I see this new papacy on two levels: firstly, the Catholic Church will not be turning back the clock on the incredible legacy which Pope Francis began. This means the ongoing social and spiritual evolution of the Catholic Church in the decades and centuries ahead. On another level beyond just the Catholic Church there is the consciousness of all humanity and the whole world. In this domain the new pope has an important role to play through his message that love is supreme and that we are called to love all peoples, most especially the poor, disenfranchised and vulnerable and to seek the common good for everyone. This message is counter-cultural to the message of the world.
Have you not noticed the titanic struggle on Earth now between the antichrist movements of socioeconomic and political corporatism? These movements are creating deepening inequality, global fractiousness, the erosion of the planet, the expansion of the military industrial complex and potentially an extremist, divided, totalitarian world where corporate billionaire greed and greater inequality increase, alongside the erosion of civil liberties. The powers of antichrist stand in the path of humanity from taking its next evolutionary step into loving unity consciousness and the rebirth of a new world. A figure like Leo (like Francis before him) alongside other people of good will in the world, can be humanity’s advocates for the rebirthing of a more beautiful future with greater spiritual consciousness. The dark, antichrist forces present in the world today want us divided and fractious, so that we keep our eyes off the truth of Boundless Love which is our divine inheritance and our birth-right. I see a world in which love will triumph 
