Francesco will restore your faith in a broken church

Written By Evgeny Afineevsky

Pope Francis made a historic trip to Iraq over the weekend and created waves by sitting down with ​Iraq’s leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf, Iraq.

Popes in my lifetime have done some remarkable things in attempts to create global unity, but this is different.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as Pope Francis, was intentional when he took the name of Saint Francis of Assisi. Ideas like, ​“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only what you have given,” ​seem to be a major motivation for Pope Francis nearly 800 years after St. Francis’s death.

Evgeny Afineevsky
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