How times change. Once silenced by the Vatican, Leonardo Boff is now taking on the role of defending the Pope. The Brazilian former Franciscan – who we reported last week is advising Francis on his next encyclical – has taken issue with a recent article by Italian Vaticanist Vittorio Messori accusing the Pope of disturbing ordinary Catholics with his unpredictability. Boff says the Holy Spirit was absent from Messori’s article. The nature of the Holy Spirit, he adds, is the &l