Monsignor Hilary Franco, the adviser and permanent observer of the Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, speaking with Newsmax on the day before the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, said he feels that the new pontiff will give the church a sense of unity and peace. 

“He wants a disarmed peace, and disarming peace with humility and patience,” Franco told Newsmax’s “The Count.” “That is what Pope Leo is going to do.”

Franco urged watchers to be very careful to listen to what the new Pope will say during his inauguration homily, “because that will be his program for the future.”

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