Myanmar's first cardinal, Charles Bo, has had his work cut out in recent weeks. He has been trying to arrange the first papal visit to his country, but has also been walking the most delicate of political tightropes between the Pope’s desire to speak out for the Rohingya people and the pressure from forces in Yangon that Francis avoids the “R word”.
16 November 2017, The Tablet
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