These past days there has been a wide speculation on the media as to who will be the new Pope. Profiles of the different cardinals who are considered "Pope material" are widely diffused especially via the social network. It is actually interesting to follow and it makes one feel so near and so close to the events. The Church's catholicity, that is, universality, is so visible and felt.
Sometimes, though, it tends to border on exaggerations, that it seems as if I am watching American Idol or the X-Factor and other similar shows.
I am sure that the cardinals themselves don't have anything to do with these things.
But I am disturbed by the comments that I read and by the preferences by virtue of regional, racial or linguistic alliances. They reflect a mentality that is precisely contrary to what Jesus has shown and has taught.
Personally, I believe that more than writing or discussing speculations about the Conclave, I would better serve God's purpose if I pray and offer something so that this Conclave may truly be an experience of leaving space to the Holy Spirit. May our new Pope be according to the heart of Jesus "who came to serve and not to be served" (Mt 20:28).
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