Pope Francis through the “world” archives

Elu Pope in 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was for twelve years at the head of the Catholic Church. While the sovereign pontiff died on Monday April 21 at 7:35 a.m., announced the Vatican, The world offers you a selection of twelve articles retracing his career and his doctrine.

• Pope Francis: Politics in Chair

Jorge Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998, is the first Jesuit to become a primate of Argentina, in 2001. His critical homilies against neoliberalism, political clientelism, corruption and social inequalities make him popular. He is then presented as one of the fiercest opponents of the Peronist President Nestor Kirchner.

• François, the pope of “first times”

At 7:05 p.m., on March 13, 2013, white smoke escapes from the Chapel Sistine Chapel in Rome. Under the name of François, Cardinal de Buenos Aires is the first South American and the first Jesuit to direct the Catholic Church.

• An unclassifiable Holiness

The different writings of the new pope draw the intellectual portrait of a clerk defending a “Social line” While maintaining the tradition of the Church on social subjects. A sovereign pontiff more unclassifiable than his predecessors.

• The first months of Pope Francis: Change of style or real revolution?

In four months of pontificate, François gave human warmth to Catholicism. The rupture of style with its predecessor, Benoît XVI, is dizzying. But it should not be mistaken: if it is revolutionizing a certain number of Vatican habits, its global doctrine does not move away from that of the ancient bishops of Rome.

• Climate: the Pope attacks the “waste culture” of rich countries

In June 2015, Pope Francis published Laudato if 'the first encyclical entirely devoted to the ecological crisis and the preservation of the environment. The Holy Father insists on the responsibility of man and countries developed in global warming.

• Conservative in Argentina, progressive in the Vatican: Who is Pope Francis?

Jorge Bergoglio, the conservative archbishop of Buenos Aires, changed by becoming Pope Francis, in March 2013? Portrait of a pragmatic and political prelate in terms of shadows and lights of his Argentinian years.

• Pope Francis: In the Vatican, war is declared

The conflict between the Pope and the conservative circles of the Roman Curia, which has been running since its election, is displayed publicly in 2017, four years after its election. And the authoritarian management of François stirs tensions.

• Pope Francis: his reform to the test of pedophilia

In 2018, the head of the Catholic Church, who arrived with a progressive image five years earlier, had difficulty imposing promised reforms. The sovereign pontiff is particularly criticized for his management of the scandal of pedophilia within the Church and his refusal to face the responsibility of the clergy.

• Pope Francis: his attitude towards gays

Between modern vision of mercy and traditional norm of the Church, the opinion of Jorge Bergoglio on the homosexual question is fluctuating.

• Pope Francis: A scathing speech at the EU on migrants

Visiting the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis gives a strong speech calling for a radical change in the attitude of European Union countries vis-à-vis migrants who present themselves at its doors. Because the policy aimed at preventing them from entering constitutes, according to him, a “Sleeping of civilization”.

• The ambiguities of Pope Francis on the war in Ukraine

After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, Pope Francis took a position against any conflict, calling for the fighting, without clearly designating Russia as the aggressor. This avowed moral impasse sums up the difficulties on which the invasion of Ukraine, the conception of war that developed the Argentinian Pope on his pontificate developed.

• Pope Francis is dead

Seen by some as a daring reformer, lax in the defense of tradition by others, the sovereign pontiff had to face the scandals of sexual violence in the clergy.