Internationalism No. 76, June 2025 Pages 1 and 2 Continuity and Rebalancing in the Multipolar Papacy The Church needs to know how to address a humanity disoriented by the crisis in the world order . According to Vatican sources, this was one of the outcomes of the Congregazioni generali ( General congregations ), or pre-Conclave meetings, the debates among the cardinals who will vote for the election of the new pontiff. It is useful to return to another juncture of the crisis in the world order , more than 30 years ago, when the implosion of the USSR, German reunification, and finally the First Gulf War marked the end of the Yalta partition. The consequences were comparable to a third world war in terms of strategic consequences and the devaluation of capital in the USSR, but not in terms of the human cost, which, at 500,000 victims, was one hundredth that of the Second World...