Pope Francis, Poverty, and the Third Persona
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Pope Francis, Poverty, and the Third Persona
Carlo A. Pedrioli*
I. INTRODUCTION .................................................... 367
II. BACKGROUND ON THE TEXTS .......................................374
A. Evangelii Gaudium....................................375
B. Laudato Si'......................... ..................377
III. THE THIRD PERSONA..............................................381
IV. ANALYSES OF THE TEXTS...........................................383
A. Evangelii Gaudium.................. .................384
B. Laudato Si'............................... ................387
V. CONCLUSION..................................................... 392
Disinterested concern for others, and the rejection of every form of self-
centeredness and self-absorption, are essential if we truly wish to care for our
brothers and sisters and for the natural environment.
-Pope Francisi
I. INTRODUCTION
Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013, the first
papal resignation in almost 600 years,2 Pope Francis assumed the papacy of the
Catholic Church in March 2013.3 Leaders outside of the Catholic Church,
* Senior Lecturer in Public Law, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England, U.K. J.D.,
University of the Pacific, 2002; Ph.D., Communication, University of Utah, 2005; Member, State
Bar of California.
For responses to previous versions of this Article, the author gratefully thanks Dennis D. Cali,
Terence C. Halliday, and Kerith M. Woodyard. The author presented prior versions of this Article at
the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual conference in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A., on
July 31, 2015; the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities annual conference
in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A., on April 2, 2016; and the Association of Law, Property, and
Society annual meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K., on May 20, 2016.
1 POPE FRANCIS, LAUDATO SI': ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME ¶ 208 (2015),
http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco 20150524
enciclica-laudato-sien.pdf [hereinafter FRANCIS, LAUDATO Si']. Because various editions of
Laudato Si' with different pagination exist, this Article will cite to the paragraph numbers in the
document, which are consistent across editions.
2 Pope Benedict XVI, Declaratio (Feb. 10, 2013), http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-
xvi/en/speeches/2013/february/documents/hfben-xvispe_20130211 _declaratio.html (text of
Benedict's resignation speech); Howard Chua-Eoan, The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: Is It
Health? Or Politics? Or Both?, TIME (Feb. 11, 2013), http://world.time.com/2013/02/ll/the-
resignation-of-pope-benedict-xvi-is-it-health-or-politics-or-both/?iid=sr-link l; Mark Dowd, Why Did
Pope Benedict XVI Resign?, BBC (Nov. 28,2013), http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25121121.
John Hooper, Pope Francis Elected as 266th Roman Catholic Pontiff GUARDIAN (Mar. 13, 2013,
4:43 PM), http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/13/pope-francis-mario-bergoglio-election.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/jgrj21&div=16&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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