Some might object to the title of this column. After all, what really matters is what God wants from the Chicagoan Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV—just as what really matters is what God wants from you and me.
However, just as there is nothing wrong with praying for what we want, secure in the knowledge that God knows what we need, so too is it appropriate to think about what we hope for from God’s ministers. In fact, the Code of Canon Law for the Catholic Church says this explicitly in Canon 212: “The Christian faithful are free to make known to the pastors of the Church their needs, especially spiritual ones, and their desires.”
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