“We Argentines and Argentines love you very much. We greatly appreciate your tenacious work for peace, justice and holistic human development throughout the world.” Francisco he was on the verge of unanimity in his own country. In a joint letter on the anniversary, the main references of Peronism, the government party, the feud, Alberto Fernández, and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchneras well as two right-wing candidates in the October presidential election, the mayor of Buenos Aires Horacio Rodríguez and María Eugenia Vidal.
The presence of candidates who renounced any consensus in the same letter caused some bewilderment in the city of Buenos Aires. has even been spoken political miracle. the old president Mauricio Macri He did not sign the congratulatory message showing the “closeness” of his supporters to the message of the Argentine pastor’s work “for the benefit of humanity, especially the marginalized and poor people”.
The arrival of the capital’s former archbishop to the papacy caused a profound political shock ten years ago. In that case, Jesuit Jorge Bergoglio Despite his sympathy, he felt closer to the opposition. peronismhas been deduced by him in a recent book and also questioned. At that time Bergoglio stubbornly objected. equal marriage law which Congress passed. But when Macri came to power at the end of 2015, he seemed more aligned with Macri. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a hardworking interlocutor. Despite this convergence, abortion law The promotion of Peronism in 2020 provoked predictable discontent in Francisco. After the failed attack on the vice president, Relations got back on track last September. The Pope himself called him on the phone.
“On this tenth anniversary of your pontificate, we, as Argentine men and women from different walks of public life, from different religious, political and ideological backgrounds, would like to express our admiration”, also pointing to the like-minded signatories. “the definitive defense of world peace” and “continuous promotion of Integrative Ecology that allows us to hear the cry of Mother Earth and the Human Being in the face of catastrophic situations that threaten humans and nature”.
President Fernández made his own comment on this decade: Francisco said he was “the greatest moral leader the world has ever had.” Therefore, like Bergoglio, he wanted to “leave individualism behind and build a more supportive Argentina”. Larreta did not want to be left behind, and as the opposition’s most serious presidential candidate, he wrote on his Twitter this Monday: “Dear Francisco, I want to thank you for your tireless profession and dedication to building bridges, always favorable dialogue and peace”. In the midst of the campaign, faced with the primaries of the right, Larreta often says the opposite: Dialogue with much of the government is unlikely.
Francisco and Peronism
There is a kind of common sense, especially among the Peronists, that the role is “their own”, and that’s one of the reasons why he hasn’t returned to Argentina since the papacy began. The right-wing opposition also has the impression that Bergoglio was closer to the programmatic principles of Peronism when it was founded in 1946. The social doctrine of the church.
The Pope tried to qualify this idea in El Pastor, a book recently published by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti. “My writings on social justice have caused it to be said that I am a Peronist. And what could be wrong with the hypothesis of having a Peronist understanding of politics?“.
The truth is, on this tenth anniversary, Peronists and anti-Peronists felt an unusual need to close ranks to defend Francisco against the onslaught of conservative sections of the Church: “We know the resistance your work has created among those who might be able to defend you. ”