Thursday, December 12, 2013
Pope Francis, Time's Person of the Year.
How do you practice humility from the most exalted throne on earth? Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly—young and old, faithful and cynical—as has Pope Francis. In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very center of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power.
At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places, along comes a man with no army or weapons, no kingdom beyond a tight fist of land in the middle of Rome but with the immense wealth and weight of history behind him, to throw down a challenge. The world is getting smaller; individual voices are getting louder; technology is turning virtue viral, so his pulpit is visible to the ends of the earth. When he kisses the face of a disfigured man or washes the feet of a Muslim woman, the image resonates far beyond the boundaries of the Catholic Church.
I will admit to being more than a little impressed with this new Pope, and I think he is great for the image of the Catholic Church.
However when it comes to the Catholic church, and really ANY of the established religions, I am short on trust and long on skepticism.
The church is suffering immensely these days and what they need more than anything is a make over.
The question to ask is whether the new Pope is a sign of a real revisiting of their Christian roots by the church, or simply a whitewash to hide their numerous crimes and manipulate those who want so desperately to believe?
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