The Pope Of The Peripheries And Of Paradox

The Pope Of The Peripheries And Of Paradox

As we lay to rest Pope Francis, a man entrusted with the astonishing task of leading 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, we must acknowledge that he was a pope who inspired devotion and yet also disillusionment. The first non-European pope in over a millennium, the first Jesuit to hold the Chair of Peter, and the first to take the name Francis — after the saint of humility and radical poverty — he came to the papacy with the power of symbolism alre…

Francis, the first Jesuit pope and first non-European pope since Syrian Pope Gregory III in the eighth century, discreetly extinguished on April 21, 2025.Elect at the head of the Catholic church, on March 13, 2013, he chose to live in the residence of St.Marthe not only because he loved living in simplicity but also because he wanted to be in contact with people, to talk with them, as he liked to estimate with the people of the slums of Buenos A…