The Firts Southern Pope; Pope Francis  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8827 (Mar. 2013), page 14.
Topik: Religious Organizations; Appointments & Personnel Changes; Popes; Catholicism; Public Policy

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Even non-believers and non-Catholics should care about the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis. The church which he will now head matters. Its unique privileges in the secular world (such as statehood and a voice at the UN) open it to secular scrutiny. Just as the election of a Pole in 1978 helped presage the fall of the iron curtain and the reunification of Europe, the Argentine's election heralds the shift in economic--and political--power from north to south. With John Paul II, the papacy stopped looking like a club for Italians; with Francis it is no longer a club for Europeans. The sight of a southerner in the Vatican will be as important, in its way, as the arrival of the first black man in the White House. Despite his age and his closeness to the conservative Benedict, Francis may be a reformer. There should be no debate about the urgent managerial need to clean up and modernise the Vatican. The church is scandalously badly run. Francis will have only a short time to make urgently needed changes.

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