Much admired, but also criticized, Pope Francis has been in office for five years now. He has already formed a legacy as a “pope of the people” — and has changed the church, says Christoph Strack.
In his own words, Francis is the pope “from the end of the Earth.” In his first public address as pope-elect, on the evening of March 13, 2013, he said that the conclave of cardinals had gone “almost to the other end of the Earth” to find the new Bishop of Rome.
From Buenos Aires to Rome. Few cardinals had to make a longer journey to the Vatican than this Argentine archbishop, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. It remains a hugely symbolic appointment. The Catholic Church turned its back on what had been, for hundreds of years, its European character and well-established centrism.
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