It is often said that Pope Francis has polarized in his twelve years as the head of the Catholic Church. With clear statements on explosive topics, he not only made friends. But he was considered particularly annoying, usually refrained from giving up magnificent appearances and was facing all people. This is also why his followers around the world reaffirm the gap that left Pope deceased on Easter Monday. Some gestures and quotes are particularly significant for Francis. Clar opinion on the capitalism pope Francis quickly made a clear signal against capitalism after his election. “This economy kills,” he wrote in his first encyclical – a circular. During the final sermon of his Philippine trip in 2015, he also said: “And so we wasted our godly gifts by dealing with frills. We waste our money for play and drinks and turn around ourselves.” He became even clearer on World Peace Day 2019: “There will never be a real peace if we are unable to build a fairer economic system.” Francis was considered a Pope for the poor. He himself always confirmed that the whole church had to be there for the poor. Right at the beginning of his time as head of the Catholic Church in 2013, he said during an audience, “I want a poor church and a church for the poor”. He showed this through visits to poor neighborhoods all over the world, but also by the fact that every year before Easter he washed the feet of people into precarious social positions. He had a special bond with the group, which was also shown by the care of homeless people at St. Peter’s Square, for example. Pope Francis kisses a prisoner after the Pope has washed his feet in the Roman prison Regina Coeli at the beginning of the Easter celebrations in 2018. Even this year, despite his poor health, he visited a prison on Maundy Thursday. A world of barbed wire understanding the role of the church also made it clear through other statements – and through pictures. At an Italian bishop’s conference, he asked the bishops not to appear as pilots, but as shepherds. He also said shepherds smell of sheep. Pastors should also smell of their sheep, according to the Pope. He also took this literally. Pope Francis will be hung around his neck in 2014 during a nativity play in Rome.Picture Allancence. He had often critically commented on some sharper migration policy. “We live in an era of the walls and the barbed wire,” he said of the handling of some states with refugees. However, his speech is even better known during his first trip as head of the Catholic Church. At that time, he already set a clear sign with the travel destination where migration is on his list of priorities: he traveled to the Italian island of Lampedusa, on which numerous migrants arrive and in front of which numerous in the sea while fleeing. He criticized the social debate and dealing with migration. “We got used to the suffering of the other. It does not affect us. We are not interested in it,” said Francis. “The globalization of indifference has taken the ability to cry!” In addition, he repeatedly received refugees in the Vatican. “The rhythm of consumption, waste and change in the environment has exceeded the capacity of the planet in such a way that the current lifestyle can only end in disasters,” he said in 2015. In the previous year, he said at the UN World Food Conference in Rome: “God always forgives people, sometimes never.” Then he demanded more climate protection: “We have to take care of nature so that it does not answer with destruction.” Last year he says that a violation of climate protection is a sin against God. The destruction of the environment is “an insult to God, a sin that is not only personal, but also structurally, a sin that endangers all people, especially the weakest among us, and which threatens to trigger a conflict between the generations”. From a early mass in the papal residence Santa Marta, he was concluding that the silence is now forced to listen.
