Upon his election to the papacy on March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio placed his pontificate under the sign of a triple rupture.
He first chose "a poor Church for the poor" - with the name of Francis as a tribute to Saint Francis of Assisi and a first trip dedicated to migrants to the island of Lampedusa.
He pledged to free the Church from the abuses of clericalism, highlighted by the proliferation of financial and sexual scandals.
He set himself the objective of building a truly universal Church, drawing all the consequences of the end of the West's monopoly on history and turning towards the South, whose emergence was accelerated by globalization and which now brings together the majority of Catholics. facing a Europe that is becoming secularized and an America that is becoming radicalized.
Pope Francis has unfortunately lost the thread of his pontificate, which now finds itself in a dangerous impasse.
Francis failed to impose transparency…
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