“Another” for the Gospel will be the last to host it

Andrea Tornelli

Thus, the “latter” will be the last to host it, on the threshold of Basilica Santa Maria La, which belongs to the icon of Salos Popoli Romanian, whose mother will be buried with her mother. In the last extension of their land path as the roofs of Rome, almost since the end of the world, this will not be crowned by the powerful, but by these poor, these immigrants, those who have no shelter, the marginalized who were placed in the midst of many pages of their education and who are in the center of each of the Bible.

Indeed, the words that were pronounced on Monday morning by Camarno Joseph Farrel to announce the unexpected death of Pope Francis have confirmed this cornerstone of his education: “We learned that we live the values ​​of the Bible with accuracy, courage and global love, especially in favor of the poorest and most exciting.” “I also want a poor church and the poor,” he said at the beginning of Pontviet. “For the church, the option of the poor is a theological category instead of culture, social, political or philosophical. God gives them “his first mercy.” This divine preference has consequences in the life of faith from all Christians, who is called for “the same feelings of Jesus”, written in the Apostle Gaudium, a document that we have not yet understood at all, which was distinguished by his service in Petter.

Words that were always accompanied by specific gestures and options. The first Pope, who chose the name of Miqis al -Asizi, followed the aftermath of the teachings of his predecessor, such as San Juan, the twenty -third, who, a month before the opening of the second Vatican Ecumenical Council: “The church has been presented as it is and you want to be, like the church, especially the church in the poor.” This teaching was for words and works, for the first Pope in South America, its origin in the Bible and in the teachings of the first matches of the Church. Like Saint Ambrosio, who said: “It is not one of your origins to give a gift to the poor; You do nothing but give him what he belongs to. Because it is what is common to the use of everyone, what you attach. The Earth is given to everyone, not only for the wealthy. ” Thanks to these words, St. Paul VI managed to confirm him in “Populorum Progressio”, that private property is not really unconditional and absolute for anyone, and that no person is allowed to reserve his exclusive use that exceeds their need, when others lack what is necessary. Or, as Saint John Cresostumo, who said in a famous sermon to him, said: “Do you want to honor the body of Christ? Do not allow her to contempt in its members, that is, in a special poor cloth to cover. They do not honor Christ here in the church with silk clothes, as long as they despise him when he suffers from cold and nudity. Who said: This is my body, and he also said: They have seen me hungry and did not feed me.

Away from ideological readings, the Church has no political interests to defense when it calls for overcoming what Francisco calls “the globalization of indifference.” The Pope only moved with the words of the Bible, which is the imitation of the Church Fathers, called the Pope to the “last” preferred to see back. The latter “today will accompany you with your embrace in the last section.