I’ll add another one: he seems like just a genuine guy. What you see is what you get. Of all the Popes of my lifetime, I would vote him “Pope I’d most like to have a beer with”.
You are so right! I love his down to earth catechesis and have saved some of these:
Pope Francis "isms"
To newly appointed bishops: "Don't be airport bishops" (bishops who spend too much time away from their dioceses)
To pastors: The Confessional is not a 'torture chamber'
The Sacrament of the Eucharist is not a 'magic rite'
On the need to be politically active: “Don’t respond to the crisis with a Pontius Pilate-like attitude”
To Vatican Police on spiritual war: “Napoleon is not coming anymore”
Reading that list makes me laugh again.
I’ll add another one: he seems like just a genuine guy.
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I agree!
There’s so much pc and spin around today that it’s probably natural for a lot of people to try to analyze him too much.