François, a pope that the left made his personal | EUROtoday

François, pope “on the left”? Rarely socialists, environmentalists and “rebellious” may have been as a lot claimed from the inheritance of a sovereign pontiff as that of Jorge Bergoglio, who has simply died on Monday, April 21. If some noticed in his predecessors, Benoît XVI and John Paul II, patent conservatives with too uncommon progressive commitments, François, he, enjoys fashionable grace.

From the chief of Insoumise France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to the chief of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, through the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and former President François Hollande, many, on the left, to have paid him a supported tribute. Like the best and the acute proper which see in Francis a pope far too progressive, “A pope woke” To identify solely Philippe de Villiers, founding father of the motion for France.

When it was appointed, in March 2013, the Argentinian ecclesiastics put in its pontifical reign beneath the seal of François d’Assise who assumed a poor life. One of the preferred saints outdoors the partitions of the Church. He joins the image to speech, turns away from Latin rites, takes the criticism of traditionalist fringes and embraces an unwavered sobriety when leaving the vatican gold for a modest Roman condo. “” In his phrases as in his gestures, he needed the return of the Church of the poor to the service of the poor », Rent the mayor (PS) of Marseille, Benoît Payan, who welcomed it in September 2023.

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