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artappraiser — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:36:06 +0000

In reply to Pope Francis and the Superman Problem

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Kindness and mercy are the essence of your pastoral message …

and of the Gospel. It is the center of the Gospel. Otherwise, one cannot understand Jesus Christ, the kindness of the Father, who sent him to listen to us, to heal us, to save us.

But has this message been understood? You have said that the "Francis mania" will not last long. Is there something in your public image that you don’t like?

I like being among the people, together with those who suffer, going to parishes. I don’t like the ideological interpretations, a certain "mythology of Pope Francis," when it is said, for example, that he goes out of the Vatican at night to walk and to feed the homeless on Via Ottaviano. It has never crossed my mind. If I’m not wrong, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealization there is an aggression. Depicting the pope to be a sort of superman, a type of star, seems offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone — a normal person.

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