Why does the Wall Street Journal think Francis struggles to escape scandals started in only 2019?
Pope Francis Struggles to Escape Scandals of 2019
ROME—Pope Francis ended 2019 in embarrassment when he angrily slapped the hand of a woman who had pulled on his own while he was greeting pilgrims on New Year’s Eve. He began 2020 with a public apology for losing his patience and setting a “bad example.”
It was a fitting coda to a year in which the pope addressed one scandal—the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse crisis—only to become embroiled in another, over the Vatican’s murky finances.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-struggles-to-escape-scandals-of-2019-11578052800 ]
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Pope Francis Struggles to Escape Scandals of 2019
The pope starts new year dogged by crises that complicate his agenda
ROME—Pope Francis ended 2019 in embarrassment when he angrily slapped the hand of a woman who had pulled on his own while he was greeting pilgrims on New Year’s Eve. He began 2020 with a public apology for losing his patience and setting a “bad example.”
It was a fitting coda to a year in which the pope addressed one scandal—the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse crisis—only to become embroiled in another, over the Vatican’s murky finances.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-struggles-to-escape-scandals-of-2019-11578052800 ]
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Comments