Church watchers are sometimes surprised by the Pope's picks of figures who are often little known in Rome or lead relatively small Catholic flocks
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“The idea that the Pope is capable of influencing his successor is not real,” said Alberto Melloni, a church historian at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. “It is not even his agenda.” “It’s more about geography than about theology,” said Massimo Faggioli, a professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia who has chronicled the Francis papacy. “It’s generally about giving voice to those who are in the peripheries….more than a particular vision of the Church.”Church watchers are sometimes surprised by the Pope’s picks of figures who are often little known in Rome or lead relatively small Catholic flocks.
Often the choices appear to be influenced by Francis’ preference for what he has called a Church that is “bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets.”
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