Politics is life. Pope Francis teaches us that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Gospel of Life; so Pope Francis, like every predecessor, is political. The political sense of this Pope is deeply vital, "embodied" in the worlds-of-life; so it should be a leader, world in the worlds.
The world of Francis is our life and this is evident both in speeches to the "least" in the "existential peripheries", both in major strategic decisions; Francesco lives and communicates the human unity and its transcendence in every vital act.
It seems that Pope Francis likes a lot to "unbelievers" and less to "believers"; the time has come that "believers" rethink their "religiousness", beyond the power of the Church-Institution, in a Church of the people and of the worlds (in the people and in the worlds).
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No doubt this pope is a navigated politician: the Jesuit finally shows himself from under the cloak of the Franciscan! And he is certainly living out the Gospel, and preaching it, as the Roman Catholic Church has always taught it. He is thought to be a revolutionary and, from one point of view, he is. Yet, he is not changing the Roman Catholic trdition in the least. The social doctrine of the Church is what he preaches and lives out. It would be enough to read past encyclicas to know that he is not a revolutionary but a revivalist. He speaks loudlier, true; he shouts words that past popes have only whispered. He has more courage then many of his predecessor. Yet he is saying nothing new. And what is the final goal of such a good politician? To make the world a better place? Is that enough? Or every move of his is aimed at reuniting Christianity against... What? Secularism? Certainly not Islam! Could somebody open my eyes?
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