Pope Francis criticized this Monday, in the Vatican, the so-called “cancel culture” which, as he said in his traditional speech at the beginning of the year to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, “invades many spheres and public institutions” and forces people to “deny” or “rewrite history”.
Francis introduced the theme of the so-called “cancel culture” in his speeches when he said that many agendas “are increasingly dictated by a way of thinking that denies the natural foundations of humanity and the cultural roots that constitute the identity of many peoples.”
The pontiff lamented the spread of “the culture of cancellation, which invades many areas and public institutions” and which, “in the name of protecting diversity, ends up erasing the meaning of each identity, with the risk of silencing positions that defend a respectful and balance of different sensitivities”.
The pope warned against what he saw as the development of “a single way of thinking that is forced to deny history or, worse still, to rewrite it on the basis of contemporary categories, while every historical situation must be interpreted according to the hermeneutics of the time”.
Francisco called for multilateral diplomacy to be “truly inclusive”, “not suppressing, but valuing the diversities and historical sensitivities that distinguish different peoples”.
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