Committed to the poor, migrants and the environment, Pope Francis dedicated his pontificate to the most disadvantaged. But was it so progressive?
The Argentine pontiff that Died On Easter Monday at the age of 88, he made his first visit to the Italian Island of Lampedusa on July 8, 2013. On this occasion, he paid tribute to migrants who died in the Mediterranean and denounced “the globalization of indifference.”
Evin Incir, Swedish S&D.
Nicknamed “Pope of the poor”, Francisco multiplied their actions in favor of the most needy, inviting homeless people to have dinner in the Vatican and institute the poor world day.
Interested in economic issues, the chief of the Church also denounced the “excesses of globalization”, the financing that “noble peoples” and “the new idolatry of money.”
Ecology was in the center of his pontificate, to which he dedicated his encyclical letter Laudato yes Posted in 2015.
Human Rights
In the field of minorities and women’s rights, the situation did not change much.
Although the church’s head opened the blessing of marriage with homosexual couples, the door of religious marriage remains closed for them.
The sexual and reproductive rights of women were widely absent from their pontificate.
During a visit to Belgium, the Pope described the doctors who have aborted as “hired murderers” and compared abortion with a murder.
“The Pope has not realized that the restrictions on the sexual and reproductive rights of women will not end spontaneous abortions. They will only cause abortions to be dangerous and not accessible to all women,” said Spanish Eurodiputa Lina Gálvez (S&D).
“He was a man who fought against many inequalities, but it seems that these gender inequalities and this lack of women’s rights were not in his mind,” he adds.
Although Francisco proposed the presence of women in the Vatican, they remain excluded from the priesthood. The Eurodiputada Lina Gálvez does not hesitate to talk about a “lost opportunity.”
The question remains: was not Pope Francis or did not want to reform the Church in depth?
