Mexico City / 05.05.2025 00:24:07
The reaction that has been perceived after the death of Pope Francis has been unusual. I do not mean the reaction of Catholics, of whom it is logical that they live with weighing the death of the highest hierarchy of their religion. But there have been many who, without belonging to that religion, have lamented by various means about the death of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man and the pontiff.
Perhaps the first great empathy towards him arose as a result of the name with which he chose to be called: Francisco, in honor of Francisco de Asís, who was Giovanni de Pietro de Bernardone, son of a wealthy merchant who resigned from his inheritance and chose to live in the most radical poverty and who remembers as the poor saint who spoke with the animals.
Indeed, what marks the Holy of Assisi in the popular imaginary is his closeness and his acceptance of all animals as children of God himself. Giotto already painted him talking to birds, and the idea reappeared when Pope Francis declared that the animals had a soul. I remember that when commenting on the above, some pedantic asked me with irony if I was interested in that the Pope made that statement … Of course! I replied: in a country where there is so much abuse of animals and at the same time a very high percentage belong to that church, it seems of the utmost importance that the head of the same, declares that animals have a soul.
Ironies and pedantime apart, any intelligent person can consider that the soul and the animated, are words that belong to the same family. The animals are animal beings and therefore have soul (the scripts they use serve to highlight the family kinship between these words and their meaning). So that they encourage them Ánim equality Between human animals and non -human animals.
On the other hand, Francisco was the first pontiff to make much more inclusive statements around homosexuality. Immediately on social networks, a smoke meme circulated leaving the Vatican with all the colors of the rainbow.
He was an inclusive individual, who defended such values and distinguished himself as an empathic Pope. Some rumors circulate around that he wanted to see his dog before he died. We do not know if this is true, but again the image he leaves is that of a simple, loving, empathic man: the opposite of his predecessor. His empathy and inclusiveness were the two factors that made, in effect, his death was perhaps the most lamented papacy.
Let’s see what the Church decides: if you choose to continue towards change and inclusion, or if as the crab, after taking a step in front, take two steps back.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be remembered as Francisco, the exceptional Pope.
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