Pondering the Potency of the Papacy Today
This Wednesday, the cloudy puffs of the fumata bianca from the Sistine chapel told the world that, in unexpectedly quick passion, the Catholic Church would have a new world leader. At the age of 76, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, former leader of the Arch Diosese of Buenos Aires, will become a Pope of many firsts. Not only is he the first non-European Pontifex of Rome, but he is also the very first Jesuit[1] to bear the...
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