A brave innovative for some, a harmful uprising for others, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was elevated to Peter’s headquarters under the name of Francis, He died on Monday, April 21 at the age of 88, said the Vatican. Duration of its pontificate, the first Latin American Pope, both delighted and the Catholics. A tireless defender of the poor, or migrants, or the devastated planet, or interreligious understanding, a critic or “cancel culture” and “gender ideology”, defining above all as a “son of the church”, this Pope made light or simplistic.
The progressives wanted to see in him one of his after the long was conservative of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. They did not blink when he compared the use of abortion with the hiring of a “hitman.” The conservative Catholics drowned when he praised a “multicultural” society and margked the Latin mass. With him, the usual political lines did not always cross those of the creed.
When it happened to Benedict XVI on March 13, 2013, Francis Tok about the leadership of a church that closed against Itelf, resistant to social change and recrimination against relativism and individualism. Moreoover, governance was dysfunctional. Their finances did not respect any international transparency standard, relegating to the Holy See to the dishonible range or to the tax port. Hermetic and conceited, the curia was full of rivalries and its failures were periodically exposed in the press. Francis’s German predecessor recognized his inability to remedy these deficiencies by renouncing a ministry that seemed beyond his strength on February 11, 2013.
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