Pope Francis was not a fan of President Trump, or other conservative world leaders, a position that divided many conservative Catholics both in the United States and around the world.
Francis’s open opinions about refugees and illegal migrants, as well as LGBTQ people in the church and women who potentially serve as the ordained deacon causes an writing by the next pontiff.
Francis died on Monday at age 88, only one day after Easter Sunday.
Francis’s almost 12 years, born in the Argentine, at the headquarters of San Pedro were marked by repeated blows to Trump, who won the papacy of the presidency of the United States twice. In early February, only a few months before his death, the Pope wrote to US bishops who say that Trump’s administration policies eliminate undocumented criminals “will end badly.”
That followed a pronouncement of January 19 to Italian television, hours before Trump was in his second term, that the mass deportations of illegal foreigners in the United States would be “shameful.”
Neinder Trump or Vice President JD Vance, the latter a convert to Catholicism, seemed falsified by the pronouncements, neither did Francis’s templates change politics.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League based in Manhattan for religious and civil rights, told The Post that Francis’s papacy will be observed as a “less” net or its unequal leaders for US leaders.
“I mean, Trump had bone in office a couple or week, and the Pope is giving him lectures on immigration, and never gave biden conferences about the transgender, or about abortion, or about the choice of school, over a whole range of things, bioethics and the like.”
Francis “admitted in his autobiography recently that the person who had the greatest effect on him, in his policy that was up, was an atheist and communist woman. And for him admit that this is quite remarkable,” Donohue said.
Last July, Francis, in the right -wing governments as a whole, tell believers in an event in Italy: “Democracy is not good health in today’s world.” The “ideological and populist temptations” denounced, saying: “ideologies are seductive. Some people compare them with Hamelin’s Pied Piper: they seduce but take you to deny yourself.”
Progressive position in LGBTQ law, women’s deacon occupied
Within the Church of 1.4 billion members, the late Pope moves to increase the acceptance of LGBTQ Catholics and weigh an expanded administrative role for women brought from the traditionalists.
He encouraged within the reach of LGBTQ Catholics, welcomed transgender sex workers to the Vatican and approved a document that said that priests could “bless”, but not marry sex couples. The intense violent reaction of the blessing document forced the Church to issue two “clarifications” in the 14 days after its release that drastically restricted the practice.
Francis also encouraged the discussions that could lead to women ordering as Deaons, a step under the priesthood, which has been for men for millennia.
These discussions did not fell when the Pope died, a shift that disappointed Phyllis Zagano, professor of the Senior Residence Research Association and the attached religion at the University of Hofstra.
Zagano believes that the Church under Francis has ignored 50 years of historical research that shows women ordered to diaconate and other positions and stagnant reforms.
“I don’t think Francis [was] A misogynist, but it seems that there are enough in his orbit and other parts of the church to look like one, ”Zagano told The Post by email.
Francis must be praised for his “significant” administrative quotes of women to lead the dicascery for consecrated life and as governor of the city-state of the Vatican, he said, since the traditional cardinals had those roles.
Others were less optimistic about Francisco’s progressivism.
Frank Pavone, for years a pastor in Staten Island who worked to end abortion as head of priests for life, was fired from the clergy by Francisco. He said in an interview that the deceased Pope “would be known as a failed Pope, a Pope of confusion.”
Pavone said Francisco’s great failure was not to be a “center of unity” within the church. On the other hand, the former priest criticized the movements of the late Pontiff to homosexual Catholics.
But, said Pavone, the damage of these liberal movements was made, avoided by five cardinals who send a “dubia” or a letter requesting an official clarification of the Vatican’s actions.
“When you have the cardinals asking the Pope to clarify whether there are moral absolute, that is not because there is any doubt that there are moral absolute,” he told The Post. “That is because they are challenging him to do their job and confirm this with the people who could be confused about that in the world, and he refused to answer his question.”
A Pope of ‘parish’ with a legacy of ‘mixed bag’
Reverend Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP, editor of Catholic magazine “Our Sunday visitor,” Francis said was the only Pope who knows in nine years of ordered ministry. He praised the “insistence” of the Pontiff by marrying the “spiritual mercy and the works of mercy” in the life of the Church.
The priest said that Francis’s style was “very, frankly, like a pastor.” He said he suspects that a successor will direct “an orthodoxy movement” and will promote “a renewed clarity of Catholic doctrine or teaching.”
Raymond Arroyo, presenter of “The World Over Live” of the Ewtn Catholic Satellite Network and a Fox News taxpayer, said Francis’s legacy “will inevitably be a mixed bag” because some encouraged the movements of the deceased Pontiff, others desperate.
Francis, he said, “Tok to Jackhammer” to many things that the predecessors Benedict XVI and St. Juan Pablo II did so to implement the reforms of the second Vatican Council, popular known as Vatican II. Restricting the Latin Mass, for example, did not sit well with many of the faithful.
“The registration in the seminar has fallen, the ordinations are low, the church assistance is low,” said Arroyo. “These markers are demonstrable evidence that something is wrong.”
According to Joseph Capizzi, the dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of America, “I think, to some extent, his legacy will depend on which lens a person is looking at.”
These “lenses” will vary if one sees Francis through the polia problems he raised, or in terms of modern papacy and their use of the media, or the theological pronouncements of the late leader.
Capizzi said: “A colleague of mine told me once, when he was a young member of the faculty, there is nothing better than a dead pope”, because “the next guy” will enter with a different agenda and leave his predecessor to historians.
