"The term theology is ill-suited to the thought and, I would even say, the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Rather, another term needs to be coined to adequately illustrate his having spoken of God, his having represented him, his having been (to quote the famous definition of the Pope given by St Catherine of Siena) 'the sweet Christ on earth'. This neologism, not beautiful but in my opinion effective, is the following: theopathy. Not theo-logy, but theo-pathy. Just as one speaks of sympathy and empathy to mark the resonance of emotion when faced with another human being or a life situation, so, for the thought of God expressed by Pope Francis his writings and especially in his life, one must speak of theo-pathy. He did not think God, he suffered him. It was not logic, it was rather passion that constituted the seal of his encounter with the Mystery of the world capable of producing Love to which we traditionally refer by saying God."
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