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March 13, 2023 marked the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the papacy. Signals that his papacy would be different started the moment he stepped out on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica ten years ago. He was not wearing a red, ermine-trimmed cape, and he bowed as he asked the crowd to pray that God would bless him.
For a decade, even when discussing the internal workings of the Vatican, Pope Francis has insisted the Church is not the Church of Christ if it does not reach out, sharing the “joy of the Gospel” and placing the poor at the centre of its attention. In one of his first major documents, the apostolic exhortation The Joy of the Gospel, he laid out a programme for his papacy, looking inside the Church and outside at the world to see what needed to be done to “encourage and guide the whole Church in a new phase of evangelisation, one marked by enthusiasm and vitality.”
Asked what he thought was the most significant aspect of Pope Francis’ pontificate, the cardinal cited his predecessor, the late Cardinal Francis E. George, who participated in the 2013 conclave, and said the best description of Pope Francis was “He’s free.”
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