Two decades have passed since the premiere of Testigo del Siglo at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, where the memoirs of Ismael Viñas—a man who shaped Argentina’s intellectual and political landscape—first flickered on screen. Viñas, the founder of Contorno magazine, a collaborator of Arturo Frondizi, and the creator of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN), left Argentina in 1976, never to return.

That Leo XIV is the first pope in history to speak English without an accent was no accident. It was a strategic goal. All signs suggest that his native fluency in English helped secure his election—one more step in the Church’s adaptation to a multilingual, multipolar, and digitally connected world.