The new Pope looks like a nice guy. Sweet smile. No punching the air
with a "Yes!' when he won. Cantered up on their blind side, a huge
surprise, despite being runner-up last time. A rank outsider in the
odds, he came romping home in record time.
He gets the bus
instead of chauffeur driven cars. Can't see that lasting, not with an
expensive, bullet-proof Popemobile in the garage. Still, everyone seems
keen. Lots of nuns shedding happy tears, priests hugging excited young
people. They do a lot of that.
It's a big job, no doubt about it.
Francis has his work cut out. Sex scandals, huge fraud in the Vatican,
a church in crisis, no wonder he is asking the faithful to pray for
him. He seems to be able to tread carefully, avoiding blame for the
arrest of two priests whose only crime was to help the poor, while
setting himself up as their saviour himself. Great things are expected.
Let's hope he is up to it, but at 76, some have their doubts.
Still,
he looks like he wants to make a decent fist of it. Just hope he stays
till God tells him it's time to leave, not because he fancies a nap in
the afternoons.
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