John Cornwell places hope in Jorge Mario Bergoglio

A great article in Wednesday's Guardian by John Cornwell. Great because exactly how this blogger has felt about the church since John Paul II became pope.

The last paragraph of the article:

" Pope Francis' powerful admission that even 'His Holiness' is a sinner, and that the Church of Rome is manifestly fallible and vulnerable to the point of collapse through its own faults and complacency, may shock the traditionalist faithful. But it may signal the beginning of a slow and painful restoration of moral authority both within the Catholic Church and beyond."

Elsewhere in the piece he writes"

"The pope's interview is set to create tensions in the church's right-left divide. The liberals, now with Francis on their side, argue that Catholicism should be collegial, pluralist, ecumenical, inclusive, engaged with the secular world and other faiths. Their image of the church is of a pilgrim people on the move.

"The conservatives promote a triumphalist church, which Francis clearly rejects. They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience. They are quick to see the least criticism of the church as defmation. Francis clearly has the conservatives in mind when he says that the church 'has locked itself up in small things, in samll-minded rules'."

Might Pope Francis really put a stop to the madness that is happening in the Catholic Church right now?

It has to be the prayer of every right-minded person of good will.