Jorge Mario, of close Italian descent, has been, without a doubt, a “Suigeneris Pope”. And from the very moment when white smoke lit up the sky in the Vatican, as a sign of “Habemus Papam”. He discarded luxury clothing as evidence of an embrace of humility and poverty, including the shoes he wore before he was elected. A contrast to the well-polished reds of John Paul II.
Bergoglio’s choice also reminded Pope Gregory III, not born in Europe, but in Syria. Jorge Mario, neither European, but South American. Gregory carried out a tenacious fight against the Christian religious movement that rejected the cult of images and destroyed them, which led to his being described as an “iconoclast”. Francisco has been criticized for having few religious images in his office. However, “The Conference of Provincials in Latin America and the Caribbean – CPAL” has rejected that he is, much less a communist and anarchist, epithets that have also been assigned to him. For the “Company of Jesus”, it rather denounces “the dynamics of financial capitalism” that leads to distance itself from “Jesus of Nazareth”. The Pope’s defense, among other arguments, It is based on “the inhuman management of political power and capitalism”, which induces desperate peoples to vote in favor of regimes, which end up in “populist and fascist dictatorships”. It is not to be ruled out that this assessment leads to placing Mario Jorge in “progressivism” which, as it reads, “pursues the development and progress of society in all areas.” And especially in the social political
In the criteria of Catholicism, it must be taken into account, in order to have an objective opinion, that we are made up of body and soul. But very specifically to the latter with regard to the “papacy”, that Jesus hands over to “Simon Peter” the “keys to the Kingdom of Heaven”, committing him to assume it as “the stone” to found the church. The biblical passage at the foot of Mount “Hermon” “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church and the power of hell will not prevail against it. With the keys of Heaven, everything you bind on earth will also be bound in Heaven, and everything you loose on earth will also be loosed in Heaven.” There is no doubt that “the divine mandate” is, clearly, compromising, even, very particularly, for “Jorge Mario”. So,
In the context, one might wonder, therefore, could it be that Jorge Mario applies such a commendable but difficult mandate to the caletre? Complicated answer and even more so if you are aware that Cardinal Robert Sarah, appointed by Francis “Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the discipline of the sacraments”, a determining position in “the House of the Lord”, affirms that ” since the worldly man wants to change his place, his destiny, his idols, and mutate them forever, the friend of God must keep and stay in the place where he has placed him”. And, furthermore, Saint Augustine’s maxim of “having one soul and one heart oriented towards God”, which the Guinean Cardinal also highlights. His book “God or Nothing”. It is, therefore, not at all easy to govern the world spiritually.
Francis, in fact, plain and simple, is compelled to imitate Jesus, a subject with respect to which the interpretations are usually essentially relative. Two books, among others, by prestigious writers, try not even to imitate him, but to investigate who he was and even if he existed or not. One “THE zealot. The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth”, by the historian Reza Aslan, who in the opinion of the publisher describes a man full of convictions and passion, and at the same time riddled with contradictions. The other author is the Spanish Cesar Vidal, with the title “More than a rabbi. The life and teachings of Jesus the Jew. The BH/Spanish publishing house notes that “millions and millions of people adore, venerate and admire Jesus of Nazareth: God, for some, teacher, for others. Nevertheless, the reality is that deep down His History and His true teachings have been ignored by generations throughout history. Centuries of interpretations and manipulations have tried to hide the origins of the founder of Christianity. One conclusion seems obvious and this is that it is difficult to be a Christian, it is much more difficult to be Pope.
Jorge Mario, given his actions, is often compared to his two predecessors, John Paul II and the author of the excellent book “Jesus of Nazareth”, Benedict XVI. And without criticism, Francisco is not doing well. He doesn’t help either, more than being Argentine, the close relationship he exhibits with Cristina Kirchner, wife of a president from La Pampa and today vice president of the current Head of State. The lady, questionable and questioned. The same is argued with respect to the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro.
Finally, it does not help Francis either to be subjected to a duality of judgments, that of the people on earth and that of God in heaven, the latter, as it has to be presumed, more severe than those of us who lead an ordinary life.
Let us pray, then, for Jorge Mario.
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