Here's an interesting piece about Pope Francis

It's from the Guardian, written by Canon Giles Fraser, the Anglican Canon at St Paul's Cathedral, who was so fed up at the way the Cathedral treated the Occupy protest camp he resigned.

Here is the headline on his piece, to encourage clicking on the link -"For the red pope, being pro-life is more about social justice than abortion". And he rightly focusses on the way the Pope ranked Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, up there with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as great Americans who showed the way, in his address to Congress.

The only problem for me with Pope Francis is that he's 78. It takes time changing things that need changing, and we'll be lucky if he has the time. Someone presciently wrote that it's a mistake to try and place him in terms of conservative or liberal - he's a radical. And his radicalism is very much based on radical traditions within Catholicism which break out every now and again - as with Dorothy Day.