On the genre, the pontiff got closer to tradition by several times excluding women or the ordered deacons – although he has appointed many women in roles to the Vatican, in particular the appointment of the first woman to lead a large department.
He said women who had suffered an abortion should be “forgiven” – yet called a Belgian law on abortion “homicide” and initiated the beatification for Belgian King Baudouin, who abdicated his throne for a day rather than signing the law that reduced abortion in 1990.
Rightly for the first non -European pope in 1,300 years since the Syrian Gregory III, Pope Francis has crisscrossed the Minister world to followers along the edges of the Catholic world – from Asia and the Middle East, to the Arctic and the Peruvian Amazon – although his travel plans have often been disturbed by absence disorders.
Sermons during his travels often leaned on themes of environmentalism, for which he was champion. He took his name from Saint-François d’Assise, the patron saint of animals and ecology, and his encyclical or papal doctrine called people to act for the environment. In 2015, he said: “Obviously, the Bible has no place for a tyrannical anthropocentrism not concerned for other creatures.”
Pope Francis was a fierce critic of war. He condemned the “repugnant” invasion of Ukraine from Russia and called on Ukraine to “have the courage to raise the white flag”. Although this last commentary, as well as his exhoring of young Russians to remember their “inheritance” as heirs of an “great enlightened Russian empire”, attracted the anger of the Ukrainians and forced the Vatican to return.
No later than January 2025, he called the situation in the Gaza Strip “very serious and shameful”, saying in the remarks pronounced by an assistant: “We cannot in any way accept the Civilian attack.” He was previously criticized by an Israeli minister for calling for an investigation for whether the country’s military campaign in Gaza was a genocide.
Recurrent health problems of the Pope previously fueled speculations that he could resign. Francis himself took over in 2013 at the head of the Catholic church after his predecessor, Benedict XVI, became the first pontiff to resign since 1415.
In December 2022, the pontiff acknowledged having signed a resignation letter to use if he was never altered medically. But in February 2023, he stressed that the pontiffs were nominated “for life” and that resignations should not become the norm.
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