Fr Tony Flannery: We will know fairly quickly if this new pope is a reformer or not

Fr Tony Flannery: We will know fairly quickly if this new pope is a reformer or not

The Redemptorist priest says many popes before Francis were not reformers, and it won’t be long before we see what way a new pope is going to go.

This was stated on Espresso by religious scholar Lyudmila Filipovich.” Any Pope comes to office as a reformer in the good sense of the word. To improve the image of the church, to improve its status in society, to deal with finances, to stop pedophilia, to punish others and to solve many of the issues that come before the church. Faced with the management system of the Vatican, realizing that it is a colossal structure with a huge number of peop…