Pope Francis and the changing, unchanging church
When Pope Francis appeared on the papal balcony for the first time, I was sitting in a television studio in Boston, doing some commentary for a local cable-news network. As an "expert analyst", I'm afraid that I was, to quote a memorable expression from Paul Keating, "a bit of a...
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[2016]
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The Australasian Catholic record
Year: 2016, Volume: 93, Issue: 4, Pages: 447-457 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KCB Papacy KDB Roman Catholic Church NBN Ecclesiology |
| Summary: | When Pope Francis appeared on the papal balcony for the first time, I was sitting in a television studio in Boston, doing some commentary for a local cable-news network. As an "expert analyst", I'm afraid that I was, to quote a memorable expression from Paul Keating, "a bit of a fizzer". Not only did I have no idea who Jorge Maria Bergolio was, I managed to confuse Buenos Aires, where Bergolio had been archbishop, with Rio de Janiero, where he had not been archbishop, and also muddled Argentina, Bergolio's homeland, with Brazil, not Bergolio's homeland. While I do not expect to be invited back to comment on the next conclave, it is not my spotty performance or even the whiz-bang technology of a modern television studio that most stays with me from that afternoon in March 2013. Rather, what is most vivid in my memory is a comment from one of the news anchors, a comment he repeated a number of times, both on-air and off-camera: "He's so old", he said of the new pope. "Why would they choose someone so old?" |
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| ISSN: | 0727-3215 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australasian Catholic record
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