Francisco, an uncomfortable dad

From Rome a political, theological and spiritual battle is taking place. There is frustration on the part of the ideologues that they expected to find in the traditionalist Catholicism the ideal channel for conveying an agenda of interests: nationalist, xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic, islamophobe, neoliberal, colonialist, technocratic, gender, war, etc.

Fundamentalists of hatred describe the dad Francisco of heretic, populist, accomplice of abuse, guilty of the fall of clerical vocations of yesteryear that fed the matrix of badual and economic scandals which, even today, are the lot of the Catholic Church. Critical voices demanding his resignation for doctrinal reasons.

The Pope warned against the world cultural phenomenon of "populism who pushes sowing fearMay 9, 2011. He is worried about "non-citizens, half-citizens or remnants of the city" because there are people who "do not have access to the same opportunities as others" In this way, they are "generated unbearable tensions" (Meeting diocese of Rome).

Bad at ease the voice of a pope who stands against "functionalist worldliness"And at the elitist order of exclusion established in societies.

scandalizes that Francisco denounces that "new ideological colonization who seeks to convince that the gospel is wisdom is a doctrine, but it is not an advertisement, it is not a kerygma. "

It causes an allergy a Church that discerns using the heart, which does not remain paralyzed and listens to the "cry of the people"

In this sense, we present 5 recent gestures of the pope that have embarrbaded the leaders of the throw the culture, of the economy that kills and to those who love individualism.

1. The 8 refugee children of the popemobile

Pope Francis who went to the general audience on May 15, 2019 with 8 refugee children arrived from Libya by humanitarian corridors on April 29 and others in a boat a few months ago . An implicit message for the "grandmother Europe" who is no longer "mother" and behaves like an indolent mother.

In the Angelus of the previous Sunday, he had asked for prayers for refugees "who are in detention centers in Libya and whose situation, which is already very serious, becomes even more dangerous because of the ongoing conflict. calls for women, children and the sick to be evacuated as soon as possible in the humanitarian corridors. "

2. The Pope's solidarity with the battered Gypsy family

In the sacristy of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Thursday, May 9 in the evening, before the meeting with the diocese of Rome, Francisco welcomed with affection the family of Muslim gypsies of Imer Omerovic and Senada Sejdovic victim in the last days of racist threats and insults in the Roman neighborhood of Casal Bruciato.

3. The Pope who gave 3 and a half million euros to help the poor of Rome

The Polish Cardinal Krajewski, the Pope's right hand man to help the poor of his diocese, "Desperate gesture" on Saturday, May 11, 2019, by night. Baptized the 'Robin Hood & # 39; the Vatican by the press, Krajewski he dared to break the police compound of an illegally occupied building in the center of Rome and gave back light and water to the some 450 people who have been living there for six years.

The majority of them survive in precarious situations with 100 infants in a building located on Via Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Interior Minister Salvini demanded the Vatican for this gesture and Cardinal Parolin reacted at a distance to defend the poorest.

4. The pope to the religious: you are not servants of clerics

Pope Francis defended the nuns of chauvinistic clericalism and badured them that they had a vocation of service, but that does not mean that they are "maids" of cardinals, bishops or priests. "You have not become religious to be a servant of a cleric," he told the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Friday, May 10, in front of the participants in the badembly. plenary of the International Union of Superiors General.

5. The kiss on the feet to the rivals of the conflict in South Sudan

"I trembled when the Pope kissed our feet," said Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, in front of his country's parliament, according to the newspaper. Vatican News in English, the 16th of May. The politician said he was surprised and trembled "when His Holiness the Pope kissed our feet, it is a blessing and it can be a curse if we play with the lives of our people," said the president. Kiir in Parliament evoking the gesture that took place during the special retreat at the Vatican for peace in southern Sudan in April.