Mike talks the Trads down from the ledge..
Hardly a Vatican insider, he reportedly kept his distance from the Roman Curia—a policy that may stand him in good stead to act decisively on the matter of the 300-page dossier on the Vatileaks scandal which Pope Benedict entrusted to his successor and which allegedly details wide spread corruption among the curia.
He’s known to have a strong devotion to the Blessed Mother (is said to pray fifteen decades of the rosary every day), and in fact called upon Our Lady several times from the loggia during his first message to the world last night. This morning one of his first papal acts was to make a pilgrimage to the Basilica Santa Maria Maggoire. There he placed flowers on Mary’s altar and knelt for several long moments in prayer. If externals mean anything, our Holy Father’s devotion to the Mother of God is as genuine as it is touching, which, of course, bodes well for him and for us all.
Other interesting news: he has not automatically re-hired the Curia, something both John Paul II and Benedict XVI did within 24 hours of their elections.
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Well the meet and greet with the cardinals showed a bit of an animated conversation between Pope Francis and Cardinal Ouellet - and it seemed longer than anyone else who spoke with the Pope. Just looked like they were talking "shop."
Fifteen decades. Not twenty. Interesting....
--Kathleen (Ottawa)
Kathleen, that's what I thought too...
Well he has automatically rehired them all now as of the 16 so so much for the big Curial clearout. Also his meeting with the press today had two very worrying things. Firstly, he said that he wasted the church to be poor and for the poor. To my mind the later does not entail the former. Secondly, at end he "gave" the Apostolic Blessing in silence "out of respect" for fact non Catholics were present! That is hardly proclaiming the Gospel. Indeed logically it would mean no more Angus blessings as non Catholics will be in crowd. Indeed given there will be non Catholics at his installation on Tuesday he should by same logic not say mass!
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