The influence of Romano Guardini on Pope Francis

On Easter Monday 21st of April 2025, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis died. He is sometimes depicted as an anti-intellectual Pope. It is however often forgotten that Bergoglio was trained as a Jesuit and got a deep theological and philosophical formation of six years and served as a university rector of the Colegio de San José in Argentina. He also started a doctorate and went to Germany in 1986 to finish his doctoral thesis on the personalist Romano Guardini. Throughout his life, Guardini has played an important role and he used the thought of Guardini on technique for Laudato Si.