You couldn’t help but like Pope Francis

You couldn’t help but like Pope Francis

A Catholic pope has none of the levers of power that leaders of nation states possess, such as a standing military or an industrial apparatus. A pope’s power rests solely on the 2,000-year-old religious institution’s moral authority, and its 1.3 billion followers the world over.

Those who had the privilege of knowing Jorge Mario Bergoglio agree that Pope Francis was a simple man who was close to everyone.

The actor was interviewed on a well-known Spanish program where he was asked about Jorge Bergoglio after his death and Darín marked the inclusive issues of great importance that Francis left in the Catholic Church.

Like every transitional leader, he moved on uncertain terrain, trying not to break completely with the past, but not resigning himself to repeating it.

In times when faith seemed to retreat to the speed of the modern world, a man emerged from the south of the planet to remind the Church of its deepest essence. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first Latin American Pope, was not only a change of geography, but a turn of spirit.