By TALES AB'SÁBER*

Brief considerations on the recently deceased Pope Francis

Pope Francis understood the church as tolerant, universally loving, ecumenical, open and receptive to caring for all forms of violence and exclusion of the time. He understood Catholic Christianity as universally committed to recognition, focused on all situations of contemporary life, and not as blaming, excluding, authoritarian and strategically violent.

His apostolate was all-inclusive and based on mercy. Obviously, he was thrown into the hell of hatred by right-wing Catholics, who attacked him in every possible and imaginable way, always confusing his own neo-fascist party with the social networks where they live. For these people, from the Second Vatican Council, from John XXIII, to Francis, the Catholic Church reached the greatest imaginable decadence.

Apostasy, “sede vacante”, heresy, usurper and even “anti-Christ”, were the increasingly destructive ways in which the intolerance and self-declared moral truth of the Catholics of terror, who aligned themselves with the most violent and satisfactorily stupid political right of the time – blessing and serving the blows of Bolsonaros and Trumps – treated the sensitive to the other Francisco.

About the union of the group in hatred, the hard core of a myth of superiority, which names itself as the truth of god, demanding the agency of power and the degradation of difference and of the inferior, in a movement that organizes itself and becomes organic in opposition to democratizing processes, socially implicated, this grotesque and spectacular Catholic reaction against its own Pope teaches us a lot about the group logic, mass psychology and modulation of the “I”, of the right of our time.

Counter-democratic, humanly insensitive, radically anti-critical, fascists appeal to god and religious people appeal to fascists, all through the “religion and party of social networks”, to increase the private and particular gain of a group of self-anointed people, who invent god, against all others. Francis clearly conceived of god in opposition to the fascist god and his politics.

*Tales Ab'Saber He is a professor at the Department of Philosophy at Unifesp. Author, among other books, of The anthropophagic soldier (ivy) [https://amzn.to/4ay2e2g]