Pope Francis' fourth anniversary: will the reforms work?: Distinctly Catholic: In a sense, Pope Francis' reforms are already working; they have already set the church on a different trajectory.
MGB:_In my comments, I stressed how each of the three changes are one in the same thing, humility. Humility is virtue, not reform. Virtue is transmitted one soul at a time. What frustrates both the right and the left, who are waiting for change at the stroke of a pen. Francis could make such changes at any time and they would be instant, but they would not change hearts.
I am more interested in dropping the title of Universal Pastor and pursuing unity under the Ecumenical Patriarch, which has both scriptural and historical justification (when Empire moved, so did the See of Peter). The episcopal appointments are telling, but hopefully some of the Francis bishops will end up in Rome.
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