More Reflections on Francis' First Year | National Catholic Reporter

More Reflections on Francis' First Year | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: A nice summary of the past year with Francis, including underlying his humility.  The Pope;s second Tridium should be as interesting as the first.   Reform should be interesting and I suspect what the Council of Cardinals propose will be taken seriously and any changes run by them before the reforms go final. One wonders whether he will both adopt an Orthodox model of either national or linguistic Patriarchs (say with O'Malley the English speaking one).  Given that such patriarchs are autocephalus, this may indicate the way we deal with modernizing some of our moral dilemnas.  Of course, how he deals with Constantinople and Alexandria will be equally interesting - especially if he can get Canterbury (and Rome) to strip off their domination of the African diocese and give it to the Copts, as planned in ancient times.