«I am convinced of one thing: the great changes in history were realized when reality was seen not from the center but from the periphery. It is a hermeneutical question: reality is understood only if it is looked at from the periphery, and not when our viewpoint is equidistant from everything. Truly to understand reality we need to move away from the central position of calmness and peacefulness and direct ourselves to the peripheral areas. Being at the periphery helps to see and to understand better, to analyze reality more correctly, to shun centralism and ideological approaches.»
Pope Francis, from the article by Fr. Anontio Spadaro, S.J., in La Civiltà Cattolica (2014 I 3-17): "«WAKE UP THE WORLD!» Conversation with Pope Francis about Religious Life"