The 12 years of pontificate from the construction of one of the greatest spiritual and moral leaders of our time. Media and informal, colloquial and irreverent, became the most cited Pope in history less for his encyclical and homilies, more for his numerous interviews, videos and.
In speeches and acts, he gave priority to the defense of poor and vulnerable people, while positioning himself on the fundamental themes. In defense of the “Common House of Humanity,” acknowledged the urgency of a “break in our lifestyle”. He questioned the opulence and concentration of wealth, recognized the right to property as long as seen as an instrument for promoting the common good.
In the Encyclical “Laudato Si”, it synthesized economic and moral reasons, facing climate change and reducing the centrality of fossil fuels. Recognized scientific evidence while criticizing unjust scientism.
He pointed to the responsibility of generations present with future generations and the need for alliance between young people and the elderly in preserving not only of future life but of memory. In geopolitics, it contributed achievements of multilateral cooperation and in the root of degrading migratory policies.
He left over women in the church, homosexual marriage, use of contraceptives and abortion. We do not know whether by conviction or structural impediments, it frustrated many. But through ambiguous phrases, it did not stop stimulating debate and mobilization. “If a homosexual accepts the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge him?”
It was not liberalism or communism, just Christianity. A cautious Christianity, with one dose of courage and another of conservative prudence.
His most interesting face was in criticism of Christians. The technique of sequestration of symbols and words to practice its opposite (either to comfort consciousness or for domination is known. This works with heavy terms such as “democracy” and “freedom” in the mouth of authoritarian.
Francisco did not fail to ask how anti -Christian a Christian can be, to imagine the privilege of leading an anti -Christian life while declaring herself Christian. He improvised even a typology: the corrupt Christian, the useless Christian, and the hypocritical Christian who speaks to God as a parrot.
He tried to show, by word and gesture, that religion has everything to do with politics, that denying this truism is, in the most innocent hypothesis, self -pride. Starting from politics is pretending to have no duty of solidarity and care, any responsibility for the suffering of others. A decision as political as pagan.
And he explained that religion is not indifferent to the economy. Those who see in the most unregulated market economy a meritocratic game of winners and losers, regardless of the quality of the rules, respect for the rules and conditions of competition, regardless of harm to health, the environment and the sense of community; Or those who fight for competition as a sovereign principle of social organization can spend their lives that they will not get salvation, Francisco would say.
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