The Holy Father warned against the dangers of ideological partisanship in society, but especially within the Church, noting that U.S. society too has so-me “ideological Catholic groups.” “Polarization is not Catholic”, he stressed. “A Catholic cannot think either-or (aut-aut) and reduce everything to polarization. The essence of what is Catholic is both-and (et-et)”. He recalled that Jesus went beyond the divisions among the Jews of the time between the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes and the Zealots. proposing the Beatitudes, “which are also something different.”

Pope Francis
grants an exclusive interview to the Catholic ‘“America Magazine”, November 28, 2022