By Gonny 
Yesterday the newly elected Pope Leo XIV spoke words the world had never heard from the Vatican with such clarity and humility. His message, addressed to President Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso and the African continent, was not wrapped in politics or protocol, but bathed in truth, courage, and love.
He did not speak to Africa. He spoke with her.
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The Pope openly acknowledged the Church’s role in colonial injustice. “Too often,” he said, “we stood with the conqueror instead of the crucified.” It was not an apology wrapped in formality, but a confession of the heart. A step toward healing.
He named the ongoing exploitation of Africa’s resources for what it is: not accident, but system. Gold, uranium, cobalt, all taken, while the people remained poor. The Church, he said, must go beyond charity and demand structural justice. Not as a political institution, but as a voice for love.
The Pope called out neocolonial manipulation, insisting that true sovereignty is not negotiable. “The Church cannot be neutral,” he said, “when freedom is denied.” These were not the words of a ruler, but of a fellow human being.
Migration is NOT A CRIME :
He spoke with compassion about the migration crisis, not blaming the people who leave, but the systems that give them no choice. “Migration is not a crime. The crime is the system that forces it.” A moment of deep recognition.
He named cultural theft…of art, wisdom, and spirit…and asked for its return. “Without memory, a people cannot heal.” Memory is sacred. Dignity must be restored.
Africa is the Church No longer a mission field, but the living heart of the Church. Leo XIV called for more African leadership, African theology, African saints, and African liturgy. This was not a gift. It was recognition.
The Pope ended with a proposal: to create a joint council of African voices and the Vatican, to walk a shared path of truth, justice, forgiveness, and leadership.
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This message is bigger than the Church. It is a call for all of us….Catholic, Protestant, spiritual, secular, to take the same step: from silence to honesty, from guilt to forgiveness, from hierarchy to unity.
This is not a political shift. This is a shift in consciousness.
And it begins with a willingness to see each other as we truly are: one.
ACIM reminds us: offer LILIES , not thorns.
Where the ego sees guilt, we are asked to see innocence.
Where fear would divide, forgiveness unites.
Let us answer this moment not with opinions, but with open hearts.
Let us give lilies…symbols of healing, dignity, and truth…
to those we once judged, and even to ourselves.
Only then can a new covenant truly begin.
With liove and light,
G.