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Unity Prevails over Conflict describes the pledge of the Pontiff in carrying forward the initiatives and decisions sealed by the Second Vatican Council. The analysis of his conciliar ecumenical theological inspiration proposed here turns out to be interesting above all by virtue of the fact that Francis, unlike his immediate predecessors, did not take part in the conciliar sessions. The volume unfolds around four chapters that, starting from the examination of the first gestures and the first steps of his pontificate full of ecumenical potential (1), deal with the search for the roots of this attitude in his biography by examining his position as Pastor of the Church in Argentina as a promoter of the "common good" aimed at seeking peaceful coexistence (2); subsequently they highlight the personal contribution of Francis to ecumenism through the re-examination of his words and actions in the light of the ecumenical panorama in dialogue with the Orthodox Churches and the Churches and ecclesial communities born of the Reformation initiated by Luther (3); they close the volume with the ecumenical program of Pope Francis contained within Evangelii gaudium, the programmatic document of his pontificate (4).