Liputan6.com, Vatican – City – The Vatican, the spiritual center of the Roman -Catholic Church, returned to the center of attention of the world with the beginning of the conclave to choose a new whale.
Today, on Wednesday (5/5/2025), it is an important part of the story in which the conclave procession is accompanied by 133 cardinal from around the world to determine the replacement of Pope Francis.
But behind the tightly closed wall of the chapel of Sistina and the atmosphere, full of prayer, the conclave cannot be separated from the dynamics of global geopolitics.
In the public consciousness, the conclave can be understood only as a sacred procession in order to determine the highest leader of Catholics. But in fact, dad is the head of the throne of St. Eve – a sovereign law that is recognized at the international level and has diplomatic relations with 184 countries.
That is, dad is not only a religious leader, but also a political figure that has a global influence.
The Ambassador of Indonesia of the Holy See Vatican Tyasha Kukhonono described the new reality of the Catholic Church, which encountered a large shift.
“Previously, Europe was the center of gravity for world Christianity, but now Europe is the most pagan land and the largest missionary region,” he said, as indicated from Triassic news, Wednesday (5/5/2025).
“As a result of secularization, there was a spiritual vacuum. Sveta humanism could not do its work. ”
In this context, the leadership of Pope Francis became the new marker of the direction. He constantly shifted the center of the church from the center to the periphery. This is reflected in the policy of the assignment of the cardinal during his leadership: out of 163 assigned Cardinal, 110 of them are cardinal elctors from 76 countries.
Some important examples are the removal of Cardinal Anders -Dorvolia from Sweden (Scandinavia), Cardinal Filip Ferrao from Goa, India and Cardinal Anthony Pula from caste.
Pope Francis also raised the cardinal of the Bolivian community of the indigenous population of Bishop Toribio Tikon Porco. All this reflects the obligation to build an inclusive and global church.
