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Pope Francis was chosen in 2013 as an unexpected choice – but with a mandate to reform the Catholic Church.
Sometimes, sometimes, he goes further than some in his own church, but he never changes the core doctrine of the church.
Through his pap for 12 years, he navigated through a labyrinth of modern problems, bringing the Catholic Church with him to modern times as a more progressive pope.
From abortion to gay rights, climate change and immigration, the whale often bluntly around political issues and divisive.
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Immigration
One of the more radical positions of Pope Francis is around immigration.
While anti-immigration sentiment is increasing in Europe, Francis emphasizes that the church should be Protection for those who are on the outskirts of the communitylike migrants.
His first journey as a pope was to the island of Lampedusa Italy, the center of the European migration crisis.
Francis maintains its position to the end, sharing “exchange of opinions” of international conflicts, migrants and prisoners with US Vice President JD VanceHis last guest to the Vatican the day before his death.
Even in his last speech, Francis mentioned to criticize the government with anti-migrant policies.
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Climate change
One of the modern problems of the Pope is the most outspoken one is climate change.
Pope Francis sailed the topic again and again, The sharpest in his writing Laudato Si.
The writing section of the environment and climate change makes the Pope issue criticism of “politics related to direct results, supported by the consumeric sector” and “encouraged to produce short -term growth”.
He also reviled what he called the global economic system “structurally heretical” which exploited the poor and turned the earth into a very large pile of dirt “.
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Gay rights
Pope Francis initially made a wave with an approach that seemed more friendly to gay rights, but was later criticized for the accusation he used a homophobic cruel.
During his first press conference on the pope, Francis was famous for saying: “If someone is gay and he is looking for God and has good intentions, who I am to judge?”
Pope Francis spoke in the papal field. Pic: Ap
This is seen as the most reconcile attitude towards gay people by the Pope and messages to a community that has long felt shunned by the Church.
In 2023, he said: “Being homosexual is not a crime,” urged the end of the law that criminalizes it.
However, in June 2024, Francis was accused of using the term insulting about gay men in private meetings.
It came weeks after he apologized for using a similar slice.
War and conflict
Since the emergence of the latest battle waves in the Middle East, Francis has spoken almost every day to Father Gabriel Romanelli, head of the Catholic Church in Gaza.
He maintains this effort even when sick.
Father Gabriel Romanelli did a midnight mass in the city of Gaza in 2021. PIC: AP/ADEL HANA
He also repeatedly called for ending the battle in Ukraine, meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy three times, and had been critical of Russia.
After the full scale invasion in 2022, he said “the blood river and tears flowed” in Ukraine.
“This is not only a military operation but a war that sowed death, destruction, and misery,” he said.
In his last public message in Easter, Francis repeated the previous call for a ceasefire immediately in Gaza and also in Ukraine.
He also called for the liberation of all Israeli hostages.
Abortion
In April 2024, Francis seemed to repeat the Vatican opposition to abortion when he signed the text “Infinita Dignity” (Unlimited Dignity), which called abortion as “a very dangerous crisis of moral understanding”.
He was previously criticized Comparing abortion by employing “contract killer”.
While he changed a lot in the church, Francis draws a line about the problem of abortion.
Men of sex harassment
The Pope is also said to have been wrong around Priest sexual harassment accusations.
The biggest crisis of his papado came in 2018, when he discredited victims of Chile harassment and stood near a bishop related to the perpetrators of their violence, a famous pedophile.
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Francis then resigned and invited the victims to the Vatican to MEA Culpa Pribadi and summon the leadership of the Chili Church so that they resigned.
Another crisis erupted over the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington and an advisor for three pope.
He is the most famous church figure who was dismissed from priesthood in modern times after the Vatican investigation found him guilty of sexual harassment of children and adults.
