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Is Pope Francis a Nihilist?

Rev. Dr. Federico Colautti, ITI, in a talk titled " Pope Francis: Understanding His Language and Mission (1-10-2015)," said: In the "discourse, a video message that the the Pope send the Catholic University of Buenos Aires... I discovered that one of the few quotes he makes is from a theologian... a certain Michael de Certeau... I can imagine that this author had a great influence in the Pope's way of being open... Not making faith of a museum... This preference for the periphery could have a relationship with this theologian Michael de Certeau." De Certeau is a nihilist that Pope Francis considers to "be the greatest theologian for today." This theologian believes that there is no "possibility of an objective basis for truth" and that there is no objective meaning or reality. (Dictionary.com definitions of nihilism) The extreme heretical nihilist de Certeau believed in all of the above. In simple words, de Certeau's theology den