Monthly Archives: August 2015
Pope Francis and the Malvinas
Pope Francis and the Malvinas The snapped moment of encounter projected fast and globally on the world wide web has become as much as a characteristic of the Francis papacy, as his twitter account @pontifex. This is a papacy with a charismatic personality and instinctive communicator at its helm. It is also a papacy advised by media specialists and diplomats that know something about the opportunity offered by the digital age to spread a message with an impact that would have inconceivable just a few years ago. Since Francis’s election, …
Francis’s God of Surprises
Much of the Vatican-including its majority of civil servants and regular press corps- is on holiday although evidently not Pope Francis. On Wednesday of this week he resumed his weekly general audience after a month partly caught up in challenging foreign travels, some at life-threatening high altitudes, and spoke in a way that once again generated global new stories. This is a Pope that draws attention, rarely in a negative sense. Pope Francis called for a church of “open doors” to divorced Catholics and their families, reviving the ongoing debate …
