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A text that escaped the embargo imposed by Vatican ahead of time: this is the first useful information on “All the brothers”, the text of the last encyclical by Jorge Mario Bergoglio. They say it is the sum of these seven and a half years of pontificate. Looking at the arguments selected by the Argentine pontiff, we believe that the definition is correct. The relations between Catholicism and Islam, the fight against populism, the management of migratory phenomena and the economy are the four pillars of the doctrinal work of Pope Francis. And they are also the four points that the bishop of Rome has insisted on since he was elected to the throne of Peter. The space reserved for ecology this time should be less, but then this is the Pope of Praise: The environmental field has already been covered in great detail.
Something, from a textual point of view, arose yesterday, due to the broken embargo, apparently from InfoVaticana. And me traditionalist blog They jumped on the text in Spanish that was circulating on the web. A summary was prepared by a set of pencil, the blog of the Vatican expert Marco Tosatti. The initial part refers to the meeting between Saint Francis and the Sultan. Not in vain, the Pope chose Assisi for the signing of the encyclical. This historical fact has been interpreted through different magnifying glasses: the experts are also divided around the Franciscan sources. There are those who think that this episode is an example of how interreligious dialogue should be carried out and who, claiming that the Saint from Italy went to Egypt to convert Malik-al-Kami to Christianity, instead claim the Need to establish limits precise between the two religious confessions, although not especially in a hierarchical key. Francis, in all probability, thinks the first interpretation is correct.
The approaches are those of the pastoral “Bergogliana”. Sui migrants the Pope writes the following: “The immigrant is seen as a usurper who offers nothing. Thus, one naively thinks that the poor are dangerous or useless and that the powerful are generous benefactors.” Always the top of the universal Church adds: “When your neighbor is a migrant, complex challenges are added. Of course, the ideal would be to avoid unnecessary migration and for this the way is to create in the countries of origin the concrete possibility of living and growing with dignity, so that they can find there the conditions for their own integral development. There is, therefore, a “right not to emigrate” – as Benedict XVI said – but current conditions limit it greatly. An open management of migratory phenomena is still defined as essential: “But, as long as there is no serious progress in this direction, it is our duty to respect the right of every human being to find a place where they can not only satisfy their basic needs and those of their family, but also fully fulfill themselves as a person”, points out the former archbishop of Buenos Aires.
The main clue, at least at the time of writing this article, is not clear, but it seems that the Pope wanted to draw the general perspective of a world immersed in a historical unicum and its consequences: pandemic the new coronavirus is, in this sense, a milestone for humanity. We know how Francisco thinks about the distribution of wealth: also in this circumstance the protection of the so-called “existential-economic peripheries” was emphasized. But from an economic point of view, the novelty – which we believe will make headlines with some continuity – refers to the concept of “property.”
Within “Fratelli Tutti” – a title that the secularist front had the courage to criticize for the alleged contained discrimination – the legal meaning of “property“, underlining its” social function “. And this could be a criticized passage insofar as property is associated by Western practice, jurisprudence and tradition with an absolute right. Bergoglio writes that “The Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or untouchable, and it has highlighted the social function of any form of private property.” Then next comes another passage, which refers to “populism.” A political doctrine against which Francis continues to worry.
At the end of a first reading of the synthesis of the text – the one that appeared just before the end of the embargo on some internet realities – it seems legitimate to imagine that the Pope’s encyclical could be attacked by the ecclesiastical right. The most discussed point – we repeat – should be the conceptualization around the value of “property”. If the traditional front were to criticize the Argentine pontiff, then another Bergoglio approach to Marxism or liberation theology would be set in motion.
