The head of state spoke with Pope François for an hour at the Vatican, Friday, touring a world “of a crisis”.
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Emmanuel Macron entrusted it shortly before his exchange with Pope Francis, Friday, November 26. With the Sovereign Pontiff, there are topics that fall under the intimate, things “that I do not tell you”. The head of state, arrived in a pouring rain at the apostolic palace, spoke for one hour with Pope Francis. A rare duration, a sign of the proximity between the two men, who killed himself and have already exchanged five times by telephone.
At five months of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron does not know that his coming to the Vatican, after that of 2018, will be interpreted as a political gesture. A hand stretched to the Catholics of France to whom he took care to remind him that he was not “personally” favorable to the proposal for the law of the length of the duration of the duration of the twelve to fourteen weeks, presented by His parliamentary majority, while ensuring that the subject of the end of life would not be put on the table before the end of the five-year old.
This visit is also part of the desire to remind certain faithful the humanistic values of the Catholic religion in a shaken country, according to the head of state, by the “bad winds” of nationalism and the folded over. It does not matter, basically, that politics invites to the Vatican. See the Pope is “at any time useful and this moment is useful,” said the President of the Republic, shortly before talking with the Holy Father.
Come “To listen to him”, the French president, with the Pope, goes on the horizon “of a world in crisis”. A world destabilized by conflict, climate change and the health crisis. While the fifth wave of the pandemic breaks in Europe, Pope Francis did not fail to recall the importance of giving free access to the vaccine to the poorest countries. The author of the ecological encyclical Laudato if (also addressed the consequences of the COP26 while running for a long time on the fate of Lebanon but also from Venezuela, Ethiopia and Poland, shot by migratory pressure orchestrated At its border by the dictator Belarusse, Lukashenko. He was also a question of the European Union, of course, of which France will take the chairman of January.
“a humanism with rules “
Less than forty-eight hours after the drama of Calais, where a fortune boat carrying migrants capsized by doing 22 dead, the question of the fate of migrants, dear to the pope, served as a backdrop to a good part of these exchanges. Convergence of views? Shortly after the tragedy, the President of the Republic had ensured that the Channel would not become a “cemetery”. A word that echoed the words of the Sovereign Pontiff. During his prayer of the Angelus, in June, François evoked a Mediterranean Sea become “the largest cemetery of Europe”, wishing to pay tribute to the hundreds of dead migrants during the 2015 crisis.
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