The son of an Italian sharecropper, who shook his church to its roots
throughout his fiveyear reign from 1958 to 1963. This is the pope who
produced the reform council known as Vatican II (which led to an correct
remark by the guy who succeeded him, Paul VI: "This holy previous
cheap ralph lauren polo boy does not understand what a hornet's nest he's stirring up"). This is the pope who made it 1 of his first
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functions to confess, on behalf of the church, the sin of antiSemitism
through the centuries, the pope who visited prison inmates, saying to
them, "You could not come to me, so I arrived to you." A papal long
shotJohn the twenty third was the pope who broke the rules, went off
script so frequently that people forgot to keep rely, whose heat and
humour captured the world's passion and who died
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with the media tag of the most beloved pope in history. Pope John
XXIII, the 'caretaker' pope who established off the reforms known as
Vatican II. (Osservatore Romano / Reuters) Could the 114 cardinals
casting their ballots in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel this week have
caught what Tom Rosica caught? Who knows? There was unmistakably a shy,
easy, goodhumoured and rather overwhelmed manner to Francis I as he
seemed out on the throngs in St. Peter's square and past. What ever his
script might have been, he gave a simple, somewhat rambling speech to
the crowd about "journeying with each other" which he ended with, "Great
evening. Great rest." Simply because an unknown cardinal supposedly
broke his sacred oath of secrecy to God and leaked a diary to the media
of what occurred in the 2005 conclave, we know that Cardinal Bergoglio, a
highranking Jesuit and the archbishop of Buenos Aires, came 2nd in the
voting to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who became Pope Benedict XVI.
National Catholic Reporter, the church's journalistic fount of
knowledge, pronounced Bergoglio's probabilities this time about to
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be tepid. 1 bookmaker gave him odds of 35to1, far down the list of
papal possibles. But how does he rating on the church's large
questions? A slightly free cannon?On pastoral talents? Allen permitted
that conservative cardinals liked him as a guy who had held the line
against progressive currents amongst Argentine Jesuits, in particular
their inclination toward liberation theology and that moderates
authorized of him as a symbol of the church's commitment to the bad and
the creating globe. Somebody noticed as straddling the divide between
conservatives and liberals gets good pastoral marks. The church does not
require an additional pope who will aggravate the faultlines among
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its one.2 billion adherents. An efficient supervisor? He's had no
experience working in the church's central authorities, the Curia, and
from most media accounts, the cardinals in their preconclave
conversations had been much more worried about the dysfunctions and
scandalous malfeasance of the Curia than something else. Argentine
Catholics celebrate on the steps of
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