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Persona #161

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

1936–
Argentine Jesuit; 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 2013–; first Latin American pope

"Laudato Si'" and "Fratelli Tutti" — Catholic social teaching of integral ecology and human fraternity

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Magisterial
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Linear created time under providence.

Space

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Created substantival; the common home of creation.

Matter

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Hylomorphic created matter; integral ecology of relational creation.

Observer

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Plural creaturely observers in fraternal relation under God. Personal-divine cosmic agency: the triune God of Catholic faith.

Energy

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Standard physics within a created cosmos.

Information

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Personal soul conserved; resurrection of the body.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Francis is attacked from the traditionalist right (Cardinals Burke, Sarah, and others have filed dubia challenging Amoris Laetitia's reading on communion for the divorced-remarried) and from progressive Catholics (for doctrinal-conservative limits on women's ordination, married priests, and LGBT recognition). His shift in tone without doctrinal change is read as pastoral wisdom by supporters and as soft confusion by critics.