Abstract
In different periods of history there are certain important theological and spiritual ideas characterizing the theology and spirituality of actual Church life, e.g. the “discovery” of Eucharistic worship in the 13th century. The main point of the present article is that the leading idea of our age is the discovery of divine mercy. The paper gives an account of how the popes of the last decades developed and fostered the cult of divine mercy, culminating in the prophetic vision of Pope Francis. Pope John XXIII, who convoked the Second Vatican Council, offering the medicine of mercy, followed by Paul VI, the ”Pope of Dialogue”, John Paul II, the ”Pope of Mercy”, Benedict XVI the ”Theologian of Mercy”, and in our day Pope Francis, the ”Prophet of Mercy.”
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