This coming Friday marks the second anniversary of Francis’ election to the papacy. In the first of a series of articles reflecting on his influence, a senior Catholic commentator considers the Pope’s emphasis on evangelism, witness and mercy Pope Francis does not seem to be an instinctively retrospective man; his passion for seeking out the lost sheep along the highways and byways of the early twenty-first century, and offering them the mercy of God and the truth of the Gospel, puts his focus squarely on the present and the future. But were he so inclined, this “Pope from the end of the Earth” could look back, at this second anniversary of his election, on some solid accomplishments. He has reanimated the papacy itself, not so much by magisterium as by example. H