VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis calls for a “new world order” where the “salvation of humanity” is achieved by “creating a new model of development, which undoubtedly focuses on coexistence between peoples in harmony with the creation”.
The Pontiff’s last interview with Italian journalist Domenico Agasso, entitled Dio and il Mondo che Verrà (God and the world to come), proposes an ecological and radical social justice agenda in the “reconstruction of the rubble” of the pandemic COVID-19.
“We can cure injustice by building a new world order based on solidarity, studying innovative methods to eradicate bullying, poverty and corruption … without delegating and passing the ball,” says Francis in the book, which is being released in bookstores in this Tuesday.
The pontiff reiterates his fraternity theme, calling for an end to the manufacture and trafficking of arms “which spend enormous sums of capital that should be used to treat people and save lives”, and insists on universal health for all.
Supporting the vision of humanity before the Fall, Francis comments that God took man and placed him in the Garden of Eden “so that he can cultivate him”, but bypasses the narrative of Original Sin and takes a leap to Jesus’ command to “love yours” neighbor like you. “
Speaking to Church Militant, a biblical scholar based in Rome warned that the pontiff was on “very slippery terrain, virtually involved in a linguistic hijacking of Christian soteriology and eschatology by purging the scandal of the Cross and singing the Pelagian hymn of ‘Glory to Man in higher. ‘”
“The subversion of language is not incidental, but central to Francisco’s almost Marxist discourse. Francis is taking salvation, the most central term in the Christian vocabulary, emptying it of its biblical content and filling it with the new wine of a humanistic salvation that is without Christ, without Church, without God, without meaning and without hope “, the academics regret.
“The title of the book itself is a clever double language,” he continues. “Francis is not engaging in classical Christian eschatology and speaking of the world to come in terms of ‘Heaven’ or ‘new heavens and new earth’ as in the book of Revelation. He is talking about the ‘new world’ of quasi-Marxist utopianism.”
The scholar explains:
Francis is introducing a new soteriology and a new eschatology. Why else take another fundamental term for the Gospels and Jesus’ preaching – the Kingdom of God – and replace it with the impoverished vocabulary of a new world order – a term that does not just smell like the messianic megalomania of politicians like George Bush and Tony Blair, but does he also have Freemasonry fingerprints everywhere?
“I remember the words of the theologian H. Richard Niebuhr who condemned the false gospel of a ‘God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministry of a Christ without a cross’,” said the Bible scholar . he adds.
Subversion of language is not accidental, but central to Francisco’s almost Marxist discourse.
“If this is not a ‘false gospel’ that faithful Catholics should declare as ‘anathema’, echoing the words of Saint Paul to the Galatians, I don’t know what a false gospel is,” insists the academic.
In the interview, Francis uses the word “salvation” in a more Catholic sense of the word, but only to emphasize feminism: “Salvation was born of the Virgin Mary. That is why there can be no salvation without a woman. If we love the future, if we want a flourishing tomorrow, we must give the right space for women. “
In the book, Francisco engages in semi-apocalyptic rhetoric, noting that “the world will never be the same” and the “pandemic is an alarm signal that humanity is forced to reflect on,” putting an end “to myopic nationalism, propaganda protectionist, isolationism and other forms of political selfishness. “
Repeating his keyword “common home”, the pontiff praises popular movements for treating the land “no longer as a deposit of resources to be explored, but a sacred garden to be loved and respected through sustainable behaviors”.
Francis is introducing a new soteriology and a new eschatology.
The alarmist pope says that if “we don’t roll up our sleeves and immediately take care of the land, with radical personal and political choices, with a ‘green’ economic turn, directing technological developments in that direction, sooner or later, our common home will throw out the window. We can’t waste any more time. “
Francisco returns to his leitmotiv of eliminating economic inequality leading “a more austere existence that would make possible a fair distribution of resources”.
In a November interview for the Italian eco-magazine E-Habitat, Agasso described Pope Francis as “an ecologist in preaching and in practice” who advocates an “integral ecology”, not just offering “simple gestures of impartial care for creation” , but appealing to “intimacy with nature” and seeking “to involve all aspects of life in its ecological reflection”.
The pope “revealed to me how he was shocked by Overshoot Day, the date, which is getting closer and closer, when the land consumes all of its available resources for that year”, says Agasso.
“Likewise, I saw a lot of concern about the fires in California, Australia and Siberia, linking them to the ongoing climate crisis. Or, again, I remember how much the fishermen’s tales about the huge amount of plastic found in the sea impressed him “, recalls the author of the new book.
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