François, pope “on the left”? Rarely socialists, environmentalists and “rebellious” will have been as much claimed from the inheritance of a sovereign pontiff as that of Jorge Bergoglio, who has just died on Monday, April 21. If some saw in his predecessors, Benoît XVI and John Paul II, patent conservatives with too rare progressive commitments, François, he, enjoys popular grace.
From the leader of Insoumise France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to the leader of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, via the National Secretary of Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, and former President François Hollande, many, on the left, to have paid him a supported tribute. Like the right and the extreme right which see in Francis a pope far too progressive, “A pope woke” To name only Philippe de Villiers, founder of the movement for France.
When it was appointed, in March 2013, the Argentinian ecclesiastics installed its pontifical reign under the seal of François d'Assise who assumed a poor life. One of the most popular saints outside the walls of the Church. He joins the symbol to speech, turns away from Latin rites, takes the criticism of traditionalist fringes and embraces an unwavered sobriety when leaving the vatican gold for a modest Roman apartment. “” In his words as in his gestures, he wanted the return of the Church of the poor to the service of the poor », Rent the mayor (PS) of Marseille, Benoît Payan, who welcomed it in September 2023.
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Source: Lemonde