Mantra Cardinal Invokes Poor, Peripheries and Plague
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The second Francis mantra followed quickly, when he spoke about “reconnecting the wires with the peripheries” which are for him also “psychological and existential.”
He called it “beautiful and spectacular” that Francis created next to Saint Peter’s a hostel for “the poor” although the place could have been rented out as a hotel.
During the coronavirus lockdown, Zuppi read The Plague by Albert Camus (+1960), an atheist, womanizer, anarcho-communist, Marxist, and anti-Christian French author.
For Zuppi, the lockdown has “opened a spiritual dimension.
Picture: Matteo Zuppi, © Presidenza della Repubblica, CC BY-SA, #newsDebexasgbv
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