Death of Francis, Pope of Liberation (writes Michal Havran)

23. Apr 2025 at 12:44

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The author is a writer and theologian

It would be a mistake to reduce the action of the deceased Pope to the moderator of the conflict between conservative and liberal currents of political Catholicism.

František did not have any of these schools of thinking sufficiently close to make us a few hours after his mystical death to Easter Monday they made a character he never wanted to be.

The theological background of the Argentine Pope was drawn by resources in Liberation theology And thanks to his twelve -year pontificate, it has become a legitimate space for the theological event in the environment of the Roman Curia, where it has not yet been belonged.

Theology of liberation and political violence

The already forgotten context of the circumstances under which the theology of liberation arose was manifested regularly in all its public texts, professional, faithful performances and binding orientations to modernize the Church.

Francis was a man of modernism and modern epoch thanks to his theological descent in thinking set in the normal life of economic and social reality.

Not yet clear what his way of engaging has brought, but his constant and urgent efforts to understand the political and military conflicts to Ukrainein Gaza or in Africa, it is already exceeding the common recommendations of Christian theology in relation to political violence.

One of the reasons why, although often helplessly, he commented on the drama of political violence, his inspiration in the theology of liberation, which is one of the most political theologies of the history of Christian philosophy.

In the famous criticism of Marxism philosopher Bertrand Russell It states that the basic failure of Marxist thinking is the absence of kindness and compassion.

In English to which František’s compatriot Jorge Luis Borges He said that her peculiarity and perfection comes from historical development, which is a mixture of old Germanic languages ​​and French-Latin influence, but kindness and compassion means something more than in Slovak. It also means an active participation in suffering, one that is beyond the limits of normal courtesy.

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