“The Republic”, the founder Eugenio Scalfari intervene to “defend” Pope Francis, not so much from the attacks of “external enemies” but from the thorough overview provided only two days ago by Miguel Gotor on the same newspaper today, directed by Maurizio Molinari.
It may seem a mere “artifice” among journalists destined to interest only the rooms of Largo Focchetti (and probably in part it is also, ED.) but it is on a main theme that we focus to highlight how once again Scalfari “reads” In Pope Francis some positions far from minimal for Catholic doctrine.
According to Gotor the Holy Father finds himself numerous enemies both inside and outside the Church for his being intrinsically "Jesuit and militant that challenges the world": here, for Scalfari Gotor's point of view is not shared and in today's long editorial he tries to "refute" it (with grace and respect for his colleague).
"Pope Bergoglio had become very close friends with Cardinal Martini. And as soon as he was elected, on March 13, 2013, he was greeted by general sympathy, " writes the historian founder of Rep.
The problem therefore does not go back in Catholic hierarchies, in the battles over climate and migrants and none other than in the Jesuit “antipathy”: according to Scalfari the real point on which to defend Pope Francis is the challenge in dialogue with other religions.
WHY DEFEND POPE FRANCIS
"The Holy Father has often told me about the contrasts that he wanted to cease between Catholics and Protestants, a difference that he wanted to be widely bearable", still emphasizes Eugenio Scalfari not before launching the real" nodal " point of the whole issue.
The Pope went far beyond this" challenge","he dealt with the extra-Christian religions, those existing throughout the Asian continent, from Russia Beyond the Urals, to India, China, Japan and Australia". In short, the activity of meeting between the Christian world and that "not" is what Pope Francis would have most dear in his Magisterium, according to Scalfari: "Francis supported and maintains that God is unique and not simply Christian.
God is God and has no absurd territoriality." It is not the first time that Scalfari "heads" to the Pope this assumption very "unsettling" in the thought of a Pontiff of the Catholic Church: elder journalist claims not only to be right but for the Pope to go and defended his own to preserve his battle religious: "Francis on this point is revolutionary, there is only one God but is everywhere the same; there is only one God and only one religion and that is the goal of st. Francis".
The problem then arose with the Covid-19 pandemic that prevented the Pope's travel and dialogue in every part of the world: "now he is forced to limit himself to the papal apartments in the Vatican and this is certainly not a position pleasing to Pope Francis and yet to it he is obliged".
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