The poor pope

摘要

Pity the pontiff. Not only does he face the urgent task of sorting out sordid power struggles in the heart of the Vatican; in the wider world of Catholicism, rival political camps are eagerly looking forward to his first pronouncements on social and economic questions.On the political left, people have hailed a pope from outside Europe who had guided his Argentine flock through the economic recession and social upheaval that came to a head with the devaluation of the peso in 2001. That could affect his thinking on present-day crises, including the travails of the euro zone.