{"id":65984,"date":"2025-05-21T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=65984"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:18:53","slug":"francis-the-pope-from-the-other-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/francis-the-pope-from-the-other-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis: The Pope from the Other End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"It may be tempting to say something about the Pope simply because he\u2019s the Pope. Or, just as likely, we may be tempted not to say anything about the Pope because he\u2019s the Pope. I actually belong to this second group, but notwithstanding, I\u2019ll try to say something.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI had an inner dialogue with Pope Francis after reading Laudato Si\u2019, his encyclical on the environment, and Fratelli Tutti, his encyclical on social fellowship. But first, let me make a preliminary remark to acknowledge the problems facing the Pope and the Catholic Church. Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, called himself \u201cthe pope from the other end of the world.\u201d It could be that he was referring to how he came from far away, from Argentina. But then he could have said, \u201cI come from the end of the world\u201d\u2014i<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be tempting to say something about the Pope simply because he\u2019s the Pope. Or, just as likely, we may be tempted not to say anything about the Pope because he\u2019s the Pope. I actually belong to this second group, but notwithstanding, I\u2019ll try to say something. I had an inner dialogue with Pope Francis after reading Laudato Si\u2019, his encyclical on the environment, and Fratelli Tutti, his encyclical on social fellowship. But first, let me make a preliminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":65673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,9201],"tags":[11655,11656,8824],"class_list":["post-65984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-religion-en","tag-ausgabe-19-2025-en","tag-english-issue-21-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}