Pope Francis is the man.

Our World is in a terrible mess:

*We are willfully destroying the planet & all living species at an alarming and perhaps irreversible rate.

*The income gap between the rich & poor is greater than ever & increasing.

*International Terrorism – religion inspired, but abused,  has become a global cancer.

*Crime against humanity sweeps Syria, Nigeria, Congo DRC…

* Western countries are becoming increasingly Islamophobic with a paranoiac hostility to immigration.

*Political leaders are obsessed by their own re-election & play « them & us. » – lacking the courage & vision to unite in the common good.

*Cold war & a new arms race with Russia looms.

Not one political leader on the World stage to stop the killing & silence the drums of war.

It’s never too late.

Cliff Gladwin, a long-forgotten English cricketer, in 1948 became the only player in history to win an important international test match on the very last ball of the match.

Overwhelmed with praise this dour Derby lad responded with the immortal words – « Cometh the hour, cometh the man. »

Pope Francis never ceases to amaze, having broken the Vatican mould by insisting, not on dogma, but on humanity, tolerance & love.

He has strongly rebuked the big beasts in the Vatican Curia for narcissism, arrogance, hypocrisy, cowardice, rigidity, power pathology, existential schizophrenia and spiritual Alzheimer’s. Above all he slammed the hierarchy for losing touch with the realities of ordinary people.

Pope Francis is, in cricketing parlance, a very big hitter who has spoken out strongly against all the above * subjects.

THE HOUR IS NOW, POPE FRANCIS IS THE MAN.