Pope Francis: His Legacy One Year After His Departure
My tribute to Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his death, through this column that synthesizes the lecture I gave at the Saint Jerome Seminary in La Paz. Francis was a pontiff who profoundly renewed the life of the Church and provided fundamental guidance to humanity.
The Royal Physician Who Lost His Head for the Queen and the Enlightenment
n 1770, J.F. Struensee rose from royal physician to “de facto” regent of Denmark and, in just two years, pushed through radical reforms in line with the Enlightenment. When his affair with the Queen became known, he was beheaded in 1772. Although his reforms were reversed, his legacy endures in today’s progressive Denmark.