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*The pope from the “end of the world” who shaken the Church
Feed for his humility and his non -orthodox approach, Pope Francis fought to make the changes of vast flow in the Catholic Church that many progressives hoped to see.
However, he faced a furious conservative repercussing.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who died on Monday at 88, established many first first few during his 12 -year guide of the Catholic Church under the name of Pope Francis.
He was the first Pope by Latin America, the first Jesuit and the first to take his name from St. Francis of Assisi, a medieval monk who lived in poverty and tried to free the Catholic Church of Corruption.
It was also the first pontiff – at least in modern times – to face open calls for his resignation and accusations of heresy from discontented traditionalists.
Pope Francis has faced multiple health challenges in recent years. At a young age, he had partially removed his right lung, making him particularly vulnerable to respiratory diseases.
He has been hospitalized several times in the hospital for the conditions mainly related to the lungs. His last hospital hospitalization began on February 14 and lasted more than a month, when bronchitis was diagnosed with a complicated respiratory disorder and finally with double pneumonia.
When he was elected, on March 13, 2013, Francis joked that he had come “almost since the end of the world”. Three days later, he said he wanted to drive “a poor church for the poor”.
He took the command in a moment of profound crisis: his predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first Pope to resign in almost 600 years, in the wake of the global scandal of the sexual abuse of the clergy and the Vatileaks relationship that exposed the alleged clientelism and thinned inside the Vatican walls.
At the beginning of his papacy, the unusually free observations of Francis and the non -orthodox manifestations of humility made him immensely popular, in particular among those who were usually not close to the Catholic Church.
The Argentine Pope took his residence in a Vatican pension rather than in a palatial apartment, avoided some of the most adorned papal clothes and collected a normal sedan, rather than a limousine, like his official car.
In July 2013, homosexuals said notoriously: “If a person is gay and seek God and has good will, who am I to judge?”
Months later, he made the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.
But with the progress of his papacy, Francis’ popularity has escaped, since he showed that he was less radical than some progressives had imagined him. At the same time, the pontiff faced a furious conservative repercussing.
Francis made a “key principle of his papacy” “mercy”. He saw this meaning that the Catholic Church had to focus less on the rigorous application of its doctrine and more on the achievement of those who move away from it.
This informed the 2016 papal document known as Amoris Laetitia, which has relieved a long -standing ban on communion for the divorces remarried, with great displeasure of the traditionalists who felt the Catholic dogma on the liberality of the wedding.
In their outrage response to Amoris Laetitia, the Arch-Conservatories have reached the point of accusing the Pope of the heresy. The opposition to Francis’ relatively flexible pastoral approach was so strong that he fueled the speech of a schism.
Traditionalists often looked at the late Benedict XVI as an alternative source of papal authority. But apart from the occasional accident in which the observations of the retired German pontiff were seen as criticisms against his successor, the previous Pope remained faithful.
Francis said he had a good relationship with Benedict, following the death of the retired Pope, who contradicted the statements that there was a tension between the two in the almost 10 years following Benedict’s resignation.
He complained about the idea that the observers were trying to lead a wedge between the two shortly after the Pope’s death at the end of 2022. “I believe that Benedict’s death was exploited,” said Francis.
Francis, who was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936 to Italian immigrant parents, had a strong opinion on social and environmental justice, earning the “Marxist” sobriquet in the right -wing United States.
He shouted against the Mediterranean migrant deaths, called “stupid” of climate change and denounced the plan of the American president Donald Trump to build a wall along the border with Mexico to prevent migrants from entering as “non -Christian”.
In terms of concrete reforms, however, Francis’ legacy is mixed.
Pope Francis was the first Pope to name women with senior roles in the Vatican. In June 2022, he introduced reforms to allow the laity, and therefore also to women to guide the departies, who are like ministries in the Vatican.
On the question if women should be authorized to serve as deacons, however, Francis did not move.
In an interview with the Argentine news website in March 2023, Francis declared its opening to the revision of the celibacy rule for priests, but concrete measures were not thrown during his mandate.
Francis has ignored requests for a change of rule on both division issues from a summit of the 2019 bishops from the Amazon region.
Under his watch, limited progress have been carried out in facing the scandal of decades of pedophile priests. New papal laws have made mandatory for the clergy and leaders of international associations to report cases of abuse and hide from their superior church, although not to the police.
Francis also fought in his attempts to reorganize the central bureaucracy of the Vatican, the Roman Curia, with delays in the drafting of a new Vatican Constitution. As for Vatican finances, he only partially managed to make them more transparent.
A notable false step was his appointment of an Australian Cardinal Cardinal George Pell as Minister of Finance De-Facto of the Vatican. Pell was forced to resign for the accusations of abuse of minors who eventually gained a sentence of six years. That verdict was subsequently canceled after spending 400 days behind the bars and Francis spoke against the “injustice” that the former cardinal had faced.
The late Pope guides the Catholic Church in turbulent times, in particular during the Pandemia del Coronavirus.
Francis, who was known for having deepened the crowd to be close to the people, was forced to keep his distance from his supporters for almost two years. He presented his usual public masses to a lonely square of San Pietro.
The Pandemia del Coronavirus also immersed the Vatican in financial problems, leading Francis to cut the salaries of the senior clergy and the rules of scrap that have granted the Vatican members free housing system.
On foreign policy, one of Francis’ results was a 2018 reference agreement that closed decades of hostility between China and the Vatican. Some, however, criticized him as a exhaustion to the Beijing Communist regime.
In 2016, in a wide -ranging interview with the Spanish newspaper the gorgeous, Francis was asked how he would have liked to go down in history.
He replied: “I didn’t think about it, but I like it when someone remembers someone and says:” He was a good guy, he did what he could, he was not so bad. “I would be happy.”
(functionality DPA/NAN)
