Engaged in poorlos migrants and the environmentHim Pope Francisco He dedicated his pontificate to the most disadvantaged. But was it really so progressive? The Argentine Pope, who died at Easter at 88, dedicated his first visit to the Italian island of Lampedus On July 8, 2013
Evin Incir, Eury social democratic from Swedish He always talked when people were mistreated And when the migrants were goals and demonized by forces that are no less present in this parliament. “
Nicknamed the “pope of the poor”, multiplied their actions in favor of the needy people, Invite the homeless for dinner in the Vatican and establish one Day of the world of the poor. Very interested in economic issues, the Holy Pontiff also denounced the “excesses of globalization”, the finances that “trample the people” and “the new idolatry of money“. THE ecology He was also at the center of his pontificate, to whom he dedicated his encyclical letter “Laudato Yes”, published in 2015.
Human rights
In the field of minority rights e womenThe situation has not changed much. While the leader of the Catholic Church has opened the blessing of Wedding with homosexual couplesThe door of religious marriage is still closed for them.
Los Sexual and reproductive rights of women were largely absent from their pontificate. During a visit to Belgium, the Pope described the Abortion doctors From “Slatuti Assassini” And he compared the abortion with the murder.
“He has not seen that the restrictions on women’s sexual and reproductive rights will not end the abortions. He will only do the abortions Be dangerous and not accessible to all women, “said Lina Gálvez, Spanish Eurodiputada (S&D).” So he was a man who fought against many inequalities, but it seems that these are Gender inequalities And this lack of women’s rights was not in their mind, “he adds.
Although he proposed to do it Women in the VaticanI am still excluded from the priesthood. The Eurodiputada Lina Gálvez does not hesitate to talk about “lost opportunities”. The question remains: was it incapable or did you want to reform the Church in depth?
