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From Rome. Similarly, Mourad Rouighi – As soon as announced in limited circles yesterday, the private meeting of this Thursday between Pope Léon XIV and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune kept the drafs of the main media accredited to the Holy See. Similarly, Some have gone there with certain forecasts: “President Tebboune is in Rome to invite the Pope to go to Algeria”. Consequently, we hear here and there. Furthermore, And others to swear that the first international stage of Leon XIV will be neither Nice nor Buenos Aires. For example, The new sovereign pontiff will start his pontificate with a trip where it all started for him: Annaba. For example, in Algeria, pope léon xiv receives president in the ancient city of Hippone, we suspect.
Far from being a fortuitous destination. Therefore, it has been able to read, this multimillerian city symbolizes the region, the country in the heart of the earth which saw the birth and preaching Saint Augustine, the Doctor of the Church which the Pope considers his true spiritual father.
Other well -informed sources have indicated on a daily basis Happen That Léon XIV would have expressed the desire to go to Annaba. where the ruins of the former diocese of Hippone are located and, above all, the episcopal seat of Augustine, a silent witness to his preaching and his pastoral commitment. A personal. symbolic pilgrimage, in the name of a vocation born under the sign of the Christian thinker who has shaped centuries of theology and spirituality. From his pope léon xiv receives president first speech as Pope, Leon XIV had publicly declared: “I am the son of Saint Augustine.”
It is therefore with great expectations that Thursday’s meeting is understood here in Rome. Some recall that during the inauguration mass. the Algerian ambassador near the Holy See, Rachid Bladehane, transmitted the greetings of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to the Pope, sending him his “sincere congratulations” for his election and highlighting the historical value of the link between the Catholic Church and the figure of Saint Augustine.
President Tebboune will be able to remind the three pillars to his illustrious host on Thursday who found his political action: peace. justice and truth. Three principles which. an expert tells us, are perfectly written in the engagement of Algeria of 2025, for the realization of a sincere dialogue between civilizations, far from amalgams and prejudices.
For his part. Pope Léon XIV had assured wanting to continue the pope léon xiv receives president path wanted by his predecessor, Pope Francis, relating to a special dialogue with the other great universal religion of the world, Islam, two times constituting 3/5 of humanity.
The visit of President Tebboune is therefore part of this wake. recalling that Algeria has always been at the service of the right causes and oppressed, a theme dear to the new Pope.
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As a reminder. the Vatican elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as 267th Sovereign Pontiff, last May. This American is nevertheless emotionally very close to Algeria, more particularly Annaba. Indeed. Pope Léon XIV is linked to the Order of Saint-Augustin (OSA), which refers to the rule of Augustin d’Hippo, former appellation of this city in the East Algerian.
The curriculum vitae of the new pope teaches us that in 1987. he discussed his doctoral thesis on “the role of the pope léon xiv receives president local prior of the Order of Saint-Augustin” and that he was appointed director of vocations and Mission Director of Augustinian province Mother of Good Counsel in Olympia Fields, Illinois, in the United States. In 1999. he was elected provincial prior of the Augustinian province mother of the good council, in Chicago, and two and a half years later, during the ordinary general chapter of the Order of Saint-Augustin, his brothers chose him as prior general, confirming it in 2007 for a second term. In October 2013. he returned to his Augustinian province, in Chicago, and was director of training at the Saint-Augustin convent, first adviser and provincial vicar.
Pope Leo XIV has the episcopal motto “In that one oneWords borrowed from Saint Augustine.
M. R.
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