During this Saturday’s jubilee audience, in which Pope Leo XIV met thousands of pilgrims and faithful in St. Peter’s Square, he assured them that the Church does not yet have “the answers to all the questions,” but rather walks in the light of Jesus, learning and advancing step by step.
“Waiting is not knowing,” was the theme of Pope Leo’s catechesis this October 25, in which he recalled the example of Nicholas of Cusaa 15th-century German cardinal who was “a great thinker and defender of unity” in the midst of a turbulent time.
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“He can teach us that waiting is also ‘not knowing,’” said the Holy Father, for whom everything must now be seen “in the light of the resurrection of the Crucified,” who educated our gaze before his Ascension to help us recognize that “things are not what they seem.”
“Love has triumphed, even though we have before our eyes so many contrasts and see the clash of so many opposites,” the Pope said.
“Nicholas of Cusa could not see the unity of the Church, shaken by opposing currents and divided between East and West. He could not see peace in the world or between religions, at a time when Christianity felt threatened from without. However, while traveling as a diplomat of the Pope, he prayed and reflected. That is why his writings are full of light,” he explained.
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“He believed in humanity. He understood that opposites must remain united, that God is a mystery in which what is in tension finds unity. Nicolás knew that he did not know, and that is why he understood reality more and more,” he said.
This, the Holy Father continued, is “a great gift for the Church,” a call to renew the heart to “create space, hold opposites together, have hope in what is not yet seen.”
In addition, the Pope recalled one of Cusa’s iconic works: “The Learned Ignorance,” a treatise in which the protagonist is “the idiot,” a simple and uneducated person who “poses basic questions to the learned, questioning their certainties.” The same thing, Leo XIV said, happens in the Church today.
“How many questions challenge our teaching! Questions from the young, from the poor, from women, from those who are silenced or condemned for being different from the majority. We live in a blessed time: so many questions! The Church becomes an expert in humanity if it walks with humanity and echoes its questions in its heart,” he expressed.
Repeating that “hoping is not knowing,” the Holy Father indicated that “we still do not have the answers to all the questions. But we do have Jesus. We follow Jesus. And so, we hope for what we do not yet see.”
“We become a people where opposites merge into unity. We enter as explorers into the new world of the Risen Lord. Jesus precedes us. We learn, advancing step by step. It is a path not only for the Church, but for all of humanity. A path of hope,” he concluded.
Andres Henriquez
I was born in Caracas in 1996. I have been a writer for ACI Prensa and a correspondent for EWTN since 2023. Since then, I have covered events in the Catholic Church in Venezuela, Latin America and the world. I have more than 6 years of experience in bilingual media. Furthermore, in Venezuela I have worked in various areas in favor of freedom and respect for fundamental rights in the country. I have been a member of the Regnum Christi Federation since 2014.