FOR EVEN an old hand such as 78-year-old Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Pope Francis’ new papal style is refreshing. “In former times, at synods, for instance, the lift to the upper floors would be closed for long periods to everyone except the Pope. This time … I got into the lift with several other cardinals and the doors closed. Suddenly they opened again and the Pope popped his head in and asked if there was room for him,” Cardinal Lehmann writes in the Mainz church paper,
06 March 2014, The Tablet
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