![]() ![]() Quite apart from perhaps a very small number of Vaticanistas, no one had predicted the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as the successor of Peter. One could say they ought to read at least the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but how many of them have done that? At the very least, with the basic catechism, even if this has disappeared. He must know not just all the cogs in the 'machinery' of the Church but also the men of the Church - those who have served in Rome, those who never did, those who could come to Rome, and those who dream of working in Rome.īut he must also know the doctrine of the Catholic Church. A Vatican reporter's occupation is not easy. I am not a Vaticanista, and seeing what has been happening in the past several days, thank God I am not. ![]() Weathercocks are extremely sensitive to the slightest breeze that stirs the air, and so they can really do a jig when the weather shows unusual activity - and that's the derivation for the title of this piece, which I owe to Beatrice who has opened a new page of her site to reflect the post-Papal period for Benedict XVI. I have decided to re-post a few of the initial reactions last year to the emerging 'style' of Pope Francis and his young Pontificate - not the raves and hosannahs, obviously, because that can be found all over the Web - but the few that resonated with my own first reactions - if only because the observations made at the time, two weeks into the new Pontificate, continue to be valid, relevant and very actual.
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