Pope Francis

Francis: What made his words so interesting was that while, as could be expected, Pope Franci most powerful passages were about a loss of faith, he was not in this instance talking about a loss of religious faith. Rather, he was talking about a loss of political faith, according to The Telegram. It of course risky for a pope to move off the pulpit that his status as a religious leader gives him. There ve already been media criticisms about Francis comparing Europe to a tired-out grandmother. But that the truth. Almost exactly the same point was made in a recent article in the London-based Financial Times. In it, columnist Edward Luce used the term miserabilism to describe Europe contemporary mood, and wrote that, rarely has such gloom covered most of the western world at the same time and Of all the speeches given during the season of Christmas and the new year by authority figures such as the Queen, assorted experts and those celebrities who managed to get themselves onto TV or radio, the most interesting by far was the one given by Pope Francis. The loss of faith that so concerned Pope Francis was rather what he described as a malaise that now dominates thought and feeling in Europe. In his words, Europe had become like, or was acting like, a grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant but instead, fearful and self-absorbed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.