Pope Francis must follow fervour with reform
The papal sermon to the faithful on New Year’s Day, delivered from high above Saint Peter’s Square in Rome, is usually an unremarkable and briefly reported spectacle. It always features an utterly predictable appeal for world peace. That’s the tradition, and Pope Francis stuck to it on Wednesday, with a plea for an end to violence.
Yet the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio also injected into proceedings that extraordinary new energy and realism that have become the hallmark of his nine months as leader of the Catholic Church, which have already made him such a global phenomenon, and Time magazine’s person of the year for 2013.… Seguir leyendo »