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Will the Pope Change the Vatican? Or Will the Vatican Change the Pope?

posted on July 22, 2015

In National Geographic, Robert Draper writes on Pope Francis and the reformation and revitalization he is bringing to the Catholic Church. The pope’s mission, Draper observes, seems to be “to ignite a revolution inside the Vatican and beyond its walls, without overturning a host of long-held precepts.” Ramiro de la Serna, a Franciscan priest and friend of Francis, insists that the pope will “return the church to its true doctrine – the one it has forgotten, the one that puts man back in the center.”

Read at National Geographic