A useful corrective to the hagiographical applesauce being distributed by the press on the papacy of Francis

"Pope Francis the Catastrophic"

Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday morning at 88 years of age, has been described repeatedly as ‘a pope for the people, for the marginalised’. However, it is important to give an account of the pontificate of the 266th pope that balances up the fawning ‘eulogies’ all of us have no doubt heard and read.

The late Cardinal George Pell, in the Demos document attributed to him, described Francis’ papacy as ‘catastrophic’.

Big tip of the hat to Gregory at The mind is an unexplored country.