Monday, August 27, 2018

Pope Francis leaves Ireland on an Aer Lingus Airbus A321

Pope Francis is back in Rome.

He seems a kind and friendly person, who is genuinely interested in people, especially the marginalised.

For an 82-year-old man he had a gruelling schedule in Ireland.

How good it would have been for his PR to have had a woman sitting beside him at Croke Park, instead it was Cardinal Kevin Farrell and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

The optics were wrong.

Half the world's population are women. And then the sea of male clerics surrounding Pope Francis. It looks odd and it is odd.

Would all that has happened have happened if more women were watching?

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