Friday, March 15, 2013

“What do we know about Pope Francis? Well, he’s 76 years old. He’s a former archbishop, he likes long walks on the beach, giant hats, and the music of Coldplay.” Comedian Greg Ferguson

“What do we know about Pope Francis? Well, he’s 76 years old. He’s a former archbishop, he likes long walks on the beach, giant hats, and the music of Coldplay.”
Comedian Greg Ferguson
“The way he’s lived has been simple and admirable, but it has not taught him how to deal with the high pressure of huge problems in the church,” Mario Cuomo said of Pope Francis.
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Spot on, mr. mario.
The NYT’s reports this morning that Pope Francis was chosen over a Church bureaucratic reformer,Cardinal Scola.
The Vatican curia, the inner bureaucracy apparently won out over a possible reformer who would have seriously dealt with the many Church problems and scandals.
(..While the workings of the conclave are secret, Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy, according to comments from cardinals, Vatican experts and leaks to Italian newspapers, in part because the Vatican-based cardinals protective of their bureaucracy snubbed the presumptive front-runner, and a favored candidate of reformers, Cardinal Angelo Scola…)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/world/europe/new-popes-piety-and-humility-aided-his-surprise-selection.html?_r=0

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