Based on exactly zero actual knowledge of the guy...
I hope that as an American and a native English-speaker, he will be able to build bridges between the factions, schisms, and threatened schisms among American Catholicism.
I hope that he will speak less, and especially less off the cuff, and be more careful about what he says than Pope Francis was. I hope he does not enable confusion. I hope that he will speak clearly and decisively and not create ambiguity or allow too much, shall we say, German misbehavior.
What are your hopes for the new Pope?
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
I hope to have another installment of THE JOURNEY up this Saturday - here's the text for the rest of the chapter - I didn't bother with the colored text since this is all from the Gospel of John.
