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Assisi Far from the scandals and poisons of the Vatican. The Pope leaves the Leonine walls, in recent days overwhelmed by the dossierage operation on Angelo Becciu, and chooses to sign his third encyclical, Fratelli tutti, in Assisi, on the tomb of Saint Francis. An absolute first, a historic day, not only because the Encyclical is “marked” outside the Vatican, but also because it is the first time that a Pope has celebrated Mass at the tomb of Saint Francis.
The encyclical Fratelli tutti is inspired by the saint of Assisi whose name Bergoglio wanted to take. The pontiff has signed six copies: three given to the friars of the Basilica and three for the Secretary of State. It will be officially launched this morning, after the Angelus, but yesterday around 3 p.m., just before the Pope signed it again, it was launched by the traditionalist Infovaticana site, often critical of Francis who violated the embargo by publishing the full document. . . An insult to the Pontiff? In the afternoon, Bergoglio himself launched a message on Twitter: “I present this social encyclical as a humble contribution to reflection so that, faced with the different current ways of eliminating or ignoring others, we are able to react with a new dream of fraternity and social friendship that is not limited to words ».
In Assisi, the Pope’s face is in great pain, perhaps also because of everything the Vatican is going through these days: he celebrates a very simple mass in the crypt, in front of about fifteen people. No homily, no speeches. Some very important words spoken before the signing of the encyclical. And a thank you, not by chance, to the Secretary of State, which, until 2018, was chaired by Angelo Becciu, the cardinal fired by Francis at the center of the financial scandal over St Peter’s Pence’s investment in buildings in London.
There is another message that, between the lines, the Pope seems to want to send to the whole world. Several Catholic women, most recently the Council of Catholic Women, have criticized the choice to title the new encyclical without including the “sisters.” Who knows if precisely to respond to these criticisms, and to show his attention also to the female world, that yesterday the Pope made two unscheduled visits: the first of the Poor Clares of the Spello Monastery; the second by the nuns of the Basilica of Santa Chiara in Assisi. “A historic day, a day of celebration”, commented Father Enzo Fortunato, director of the press room of the Sacred Convent, informing that the Pope, before returning to the Vatican, had a “mate”, the typical South American drink, offered by the treasurer of the Franciscans, Jorge, also from Argentina.
