Professor at the Department of Humanities and Communication of the Catholic University of Uruguay. PhD in Philosophy, Catholic Argentinian University and Master in Communication Management, University of Montevideo.
The law that was passed, following a parliamentary debate without any changes to the text, no longer protects all lives equally before the law. By invoking individual freedom, it betrays the humanism that upholds the dignity of all people.
Many try to place the new pope as progressive, conservative, or moderate, but these are inadequate categories to understand the challenges facing the Church.
We are witnessing a new blindness to the facts, because the truth is reduced to the subjective impression of each one and becomes the supreme truth for each one without confrontation with factuality.
