Papst Franziskus war ein politischer Spieler, der sich fest in drei Krisen bepflanzte
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/pope-francis-geopolitical-player-weath-climate-nationalism/105201666
Papst Franziskus war ein politischer Spieler, der sich fest in drei Krisen bepflanzte
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/pope-francis-geopolitical-player-weath-climate-nationalism/105201666
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Is this not the new disposition of the church? It seems that the next pope will assume these duties as all the other shoes he will have to fill.
Statement:
The Pope, as the head of state of the Vatican and the spiritual leader for over a billion people worldwide, is an inherently political position with global influence. Though some papacies have been less involved in affairs of state, Pope Francis has made it part of his mission to involve the church in ongoing challenges around the world: the north-south divide, the climate crisis, and rising populist and nationalist movements. It will bear watching to see if his successor maintains similar outward-focused interests.
Some key sections from this article:
>The death of Pope Francis leaves not just an empty chair at the top of the worldwide Catholic Church, with its estimated 1.4 billion followers.
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>It leaves a huge hole in geopolitics because Francis was, unquestionably, a player.
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>All popes, by virtue of also being a head of state with a status at the United Nations, are political but Francis planted himself in the middle of three of the biggest crises to grip the world since the end of World War II.
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>These are the north-south global divide, principally over wealth, poverty, and resources; climate change and its associated traumas of natural disaster and famine; and the rise of nationalism. On all these questions, the Pope took a side.
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>In the hours after his death, it has become commonplace to posit Francis as a „progressive“ Pope, disavowing the conservatism of his predecessors.
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>In reality, the Pope was — excuse the pun — a Catholic. He was conservative or orthodox on social policy, and tilted left on economics, workers‘ rights, war and peace and the environment — as Catholic social teaching has done for more than a century.
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>His global interventions reflect this worldview.
This was an interesting piece that looked at how this pope moved in the world and how he tried to influence global affairs in accordance with his beliefs. The details are worth reading in the article, and worth paying attention to in whomever succeeds this pope.