It is gracious of Austen Ivereigh (Letters, 31 January) finally to admit he was wrong to have accused me of “imagining” something that I actually reported. But I fear he sees the world in such black-and-white terms that he appears determined to set up false dichotomies between what he and I have written. I cannot accept his misrepresentation of my book Pope Francis: untying the knots.My book sets out clearly what he claims it does not say: that a number of factors changed Bergoglio – his traumatic experience in Córdoba, the collapse of Argentina’s military junta, the end of the Cold War, the acceptance by the Vatican of key aspects of liberation theology into the mainstream of Catholic Social Teaching, the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina and the 2008 globa