Pope Francis in profile
My father died when I was five. Yet to quote Paul Simon ‘on this strange and mournful day’ I found myself thinking of him hearing the news of the passing of Pope Francis. He once told me, ‘Those who like you from the start will probably always like you. Those who dislike from the beginning will never like you anyway.’
In assessing the pope’s legacy we need to be mindful of different audiences. In its most basic form he was too ‘liberal’ for some and too ‘conservative for others. Francis changed the ‘mood music’ in the way believers understood their mission.
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