In a certain sense, something of that project now surfaces in this luminous encyclical when the Pope reminds us that there is a tendency to believe that "that every increase of power constitutes without more a progress, an increase of security, of utility, of well-being, of vital energy, of fullness of values", although "modern man is not prepared to use power wisely." (n. It is known that already in the novitiate the young Bergoglio was a reader of The Lord of Guardini and that in 1986 he spent a year in Germany working on a doctoral project on the dynamics of disagreement and encounter in Guardini. From the early daysSeveral authors have detected the presence of the thought and texts of Romano Guardini (1885-1968) in the preaching of Pope Francis and, in particular, in his recent encyclical Laudato si' May 2015.
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