“Some say that this will pass, and I always say that they take away our dancing, that we are going to enjoy this spring, especially coming as we do from such a tremendous regression”. It is not Unai Sordo, general secretary of CC. OO., speaking of the coalition government, but José Manuel Vidal, director of Digital Religion, speaking of the pontificate of Pope Francis.
It was yesterday in the Church of San Antón, the parish of Father Ángel García, on Calle Hortaleza in Madrid, the only church open 24 hours and that these days broadcasts, with open doors, and giant monitors, the World Cup matches in Qatar.
With this principle, it is understood what Vice President Yolanda Díaz was doing together with Vidal, Father Ángel and the Vatican journalist Hernán Reyes at the presentation of the book I pray in the name of God, which Reyes signs together with the Supreme Pontiff. It was precisely the Vatican that asked the vice president to sponsor the event, a year after Díaz’s audience with the Pope, “one of the most important conversations I have had in my life,” said the vice president.
Reyes explained that the book “was born from a speech in October 2021” in which Bergoglio questioned the economic, media and political powers, with nine commendations on pressing issues of the present, from climate change to inequality, and at the same time is balance of a decade of pontificate. The co-author explained the four ideas that define the action of the pontiff: “Time is superior to space” -on the importance of promoting processes-; “unity prevails over conflict” –over the relationship with other religions–; “reality is more important than the idea” –so that what is important does not distract from what is urgent–, and “the whole is superior to the part” –allusion to inequalities–. “We agree in our reflections on the civilizational change in which we are immersed,” Díaz admitted about the cardinal points of “the compass of Francisquist thought.” “The Pope wants to add,” said Hernán Reyes, fixing on the vice president a radiant smile as those who, 20 hours earlier, celebrated under this vault the goals of Bergoglio’s albiceleste, a country from which Díaz had barely landed hours before. “The Pope wants to add.” And everything was round. like a ball
