![]() These include strict environmental protection measures, free healthcare, a universal basic wage, radical reform of capitalism, a face-mask mandate to halt the current health pandemic, and the list goes on. ![]() Who would have thought at the start of the 21st century that, just a couple of decades later, the pope would be the most forward-thinking and progressive leader on earth?Īnd, yet, despite the fact that the Catholic Church is "200 years behind the times", as Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ noted just before his death in 2012, his Jesuit confrere - Pope Francis - has emerged as one of the prime advocates of some of the world's most progressive causes.
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