I am puzzled. In his first article in The Tablet (“Deeply divided Society”, 29 November 2014), Austen Ivereigh accused me in my book Pope Francis: untying the knots of “imagining a kind of conversion experience” which Pope Francis underwent during his Jesuit exile in Córdoba in the 1990s. Then in his letter to The Tablet last week (17 January), Dr Ivereigh said, “I did not claim that Vallely invented the notion” – which is precisely what he did claim by saying I had “imagined” it.Anyway, what is inescapable is that before Córdoba, the leadership style of Jorge Mario Bergoglio was that of a rigid, severe, dutiful, disciplinarian authoritarian who rarely smiled, was happy to be driven around by a priest-chauffeur and who ca