The lGBT+ Community welcomes Leone XIV

Reflections by Paolo Spina*

Welcome Robert Francis, by us christian and christians LGBT+, disciple of Jesus called to be bishop of Rome, Leone!

We are not interested in the predictions of those who now, based on fragmented spiked statements here and there when you were friar, priest, bishop and cardinal, tries to pigeonhole as progressive or conservative.

You are for us bishop and, even more,we are with you christians, as the father of your order, Sant'Agostino remembered; It was he who wrote, commenting on psalm 127, that in Jesus we are a multitude capable of finding units, as your motto reminds us:In ILLO uNUM uNUM.

You have called yourself proper son of Agostino, famous for many other phrases that you certainly already know, but we remember another to welcome you:Who sings, prays twice. God, who directs the great orchestra of history and hearts, has certainly not included out of disconnected notes; for this we never get tired of singing, together with The pope and the church Family, a different song, remaining inside the choir.

Agostino also wrote:Sing and walk!

Here: we sing and walk together without stopping listening to each other. This is yours, our Church, Pope Leo.

*Paolo Spina is a doctor, passionate about Sacred Writing and feminist theology and queer, who collaborates with theLGBT Christian Project+ and withThe Gionat tentto write on topical issues and Christianity.