The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’ international mediation

Pope Bergoglio's political priority stopped being the old Europe to focus on the Global South and the mediation of military conflicts.

The frustrating wisdom of Pope Francis’ international mediation

I was born a proud Protestant. A Lutheran in a town still marked by Catholic-Protestant tensions, with Catholic friends who told me I don’t worship right, neighbors who claimed Catholics were polytheists, and a grandmother who wore orange on St. Patrick’s Day (I never quite got that, as we had no connection to Ireland). But I also felt drawn to the Roman Catholic church. As I read more theology and myth in college, I appreciated the mysteries in…

(EFE).- Pope Francis, who died this Monday at the age of 88, imposed a new foreign policy: to build bridges in all conflicts, in whose mediation he personally intervenes. The Argentine pope was one of the main architects and mediator, together with Canada, of the secret dialogue between the United States and Cuba, which [...] The entry Thus Pope Francis attempted to mediate in the crisis of Venezuela was first published in ALnavío.