{"id":36039,"date":"2025-04-26T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exciting-knuth.178-32-140-152.plesk.page\/?p=36039"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:10:04","slug":"the-legacy-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/good-press\/the-legacy-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the flood of articles and comments that have accompanied these days, we simply want to express our <strong>thanks<\/strong> to Pope Francis for the human and spiritual heritage he leaves us:<br><br><strong>1. For Divine Mercy<\/strong>. Thank you for tirelessly reminding us that &#8220;God never tires of forgiving&#8221; and for the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.<br><br><strong>2. For the joy of faith<\/strong>. Thank you for teaching us that faith in Jesus Christ allows us to live &#8220;on the wings of hope&#8221;: truly <em>Spes non confundit<\/em>.<br><br><strong>3. For devotion to Mary<\/strong>. Thank you for the testimony of filial devotion to the Mother of God, the Most Holy Mary.<br><br><strong>4. For disarming simplicity<\/strong>. Thank you for a sober lifestyle that has marked every gesture of his pontificate.<br><br><strong>5. For prioritizing the least<\/strong>. Thank you for placing the poor, the homeless, refugees, migrants, and prisoners at the center.<br><br><strong>6. For denouncing the &#8220;throwaway culture&#8221;.<\/strong> Thank you for condemning the exploitation and instrumentalization of people, unscrupulous profit, and rampant consumerism.<br><br><strong>7. For the value of the family<\/strong>. Thank you for warning us that pets cannot replace children.<br><br><strong>8. For attention to the elderly<\/strong>. Thank you for reminding us that fragile life is not to be discarded: the elderly are not to be euthanized for being useless or unproductive, but are witnesses of peace, love, and blessing.<br><br><strong>9. For synodality<\/strong>. Thank you for showing that Christianity is not a &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; project, but communion with God and with brothers and sisters.<br><br><strong>10. For ecumenical openness<\/strong>. Thank you for seeking unity among Christians with concrete and courageous gestures.<br><br><strong>11. For the fight for peace<\/strong>. Thank you for raising your voice in a world torn apart by a &#8220;third world war in pieces.&#8221;<br><br><strong>12. For the prophetic vision of the present time<\/strong>. Thank you for helping us understand that we are not simply living through an era of change, but the change of an era.<br><br><br><strong>Thank you. May God reward all the good sown on earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the flood of articles and comments that have accompanied these days, we simply want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[2630,2199,2627,1691],"class_list":["post-36039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-press","tag-church","tag-events","tag-god","tag-pope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}