The Guardian view on Pope Francis: an outsider who was a force for good in the world | Editorial

DEfying Doctors’ orders to rest after his battle with double pneumonia, which is the weak Pope Francis last week Go out Regina Cole prison from Rome, where he blew kisses towards prisoners and spent half an hour in discussion with some of the detainees. Unfortunately, it was found that this Thursday Mondi meeting was one of the last diligent papacy. In the past, its location was completely appropriate.

For the 12 -year course in the chair of St. Peter, Francis has sought impressive to re -focus the energies of the Catholic Church on the marginalized, while challenging the power of firm interests. Coming, as it is Put it“From the ends of the earth”, the first non -European Pont in the modern era was a strange and extremist Pope. Inside the church, Argentina was sometimes a direct reformer; Outside, he was a great ally of progressive reasons.

Since the internal appearance national movements have been steadily the West compass, Francis has become increasingly necessary counterpoise In interconnected issues such as deportation, global heating and the global southern fate. Laudato siHis emotional encyclopedia for climatic emergency challenge was an ethical and philosophical tour that is explicitly directed to all people with good intentions.

In the Vatican, Francis made his mission to update-with a mixed success-a hierarchical sequence of the church that was seen as far and self-consent. This task cannot be comparison In 2018 to “Clean the Sphinx from Egypt with Miswak”. The convicts of religious arrogance have been corrected that the church should better interact with the chaos of human life. In one of his most arrested descriptions of the Church type he wanted to create, imaginary As a “field hospital” is more interested in those who suffer from defending his interests.

With emphasizing sympathy for ideological hardness, and making many enemies conservative along the way, Francis revived the most open and tolerant spirit with The second Vatican Council In the 1960s. Envelope to reply A question about gay in the church – “Who am I to rule?” This pastoral focus benefited from the daily life of millions of Catholics.

Blessings for unmarried and oxygen couples have become in place, as well as relaxing the rules that prevent divorce and marry them from receiving the company. Women play a greater A role in managing Catholic institutions, although it is not closer to accepting the priesthood. The global debate that Francis began between Catholics about the future of their church – Senodes on the Synod The popular rules stimulated.

The traditional people wandered around these changes, some of them to question the legitimacy of the papal Francis. The liberals argue inside and outside the church that they could go further, which includes at least the entry Female deaconsFor example, the same sexual marriage. As a theological governor other than Donir, Francis was not likely to satisfy any of the camps. However, his accomplishments should be seen as an abroad, who participates with the world and its crises, as great.

In an era in which the post -war legacy of global human rights is threatened, and Christianity is weapon In the West, as a form of identity policy, Francis stood up to the message of a gospel of humility, integration and love for a strange person. Before the fate, one of his last general associations was on Sunday Easter interview With the Vice President of the United States, the Catholic, JD Vance, who was “America First”, his views on international aid and migration he had to him criticize Before illness. Progressors will not be missed from all religions, and this urgent invitation is not missed on behalf of those who rarely listen to their voices.

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