UNITED KINGDOM
The Sunday Times
Peter Stanford Published: 28 December 2014
HERE is a lesson on keeping faith with voters for today’s politicians: when Pope Francis was elected by his fellow cardinals 21 months ago, they gave him a mandate to overhaul the curia, the Vatican bureaucracy that many feared had become more powerful than the pontiff.
The subject had come up time and again in the “general congregations”, the gatherings of cardinals before the vote to choose a new pope in 2013. Francis, they decided, was the man best placed to deliver.
Once in office, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, an outsider who had never worked in the curia, has been as good as his word and his reforms have been progressing purposefully since he took up residence in the Vatican.
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