Much has been written about Francis. And he himself has recounted his life in a record number of interviews. The publication of his autobiography Vivre, written with Fabio Marchese Ragona, Vaticanist from Mediaset and personal friend of the Pope, and published in America and Europe by Harper Collins on March 19 and 20, could therefore have been an editorial event without any real contribution. However, the result is not uninteresting. Certainly, we find a certain number of episodes already known, from the discovery by the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio of his vocation in a confessional in Buenos Aires to his election to the chair of Saint Peter, as well as the main lines of his thought.
Anyone waiting for revelations will have to move on. The pope affirms that he never intended to resign, deplores the ideological and political recuperations made by some of Benedict XVI and declares to act on his advice with regard to the « lobbies » and the “corruption cases”. That’s the essentials. But the interviewer’s decision to make the Argentine pontiff react to his perception of the major historical events of the century sheds light on his relationship to history and to Europe. This “grandmother” Europe that it is often criticized for not understanding.
A complex relationship with Europe
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