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Pope Francis waves to people from his popemobile along the Copacabana beachfront as he arrives for the Stations of the Cross procession in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013.
“The sense I get is that this is the consolidation phase of the pontificate,” said papal biographer, Austen Ivereigh. “He’s laying the basis now, laying the ground, for the future.” “I really think that for Pope Francis, he felt that ‘OK, now it’s mature’ and it would be good really to involve all the members, all the people in the synod as members” with the right to vote, said Sr Nathalie Becquart, who is one of the key synod organisers.
Francis’ most important young “legacy” appointment was that of the Vatican’s new doctrinal czar, Argentine Cardinal-elect Victor Manuel Fernandez, 61. Francis’ theological ghostwriter ran into Vatican problems in the past over questions about his doctrinal orthodoxy, and his appointment sent shockwaves through the conservative and traditionalist wings of the Church.
“My reading of it is that this has to do with young people, it has to do with youth, it has to do with Portugal, it has to do with WYD, it has to do with all of that,” Aguiar said in an interview. “I think that his objective and his underlining was exactly to send a signal to the young people, to every young person who is preparing for the day, whether in Portugal or in the world, to feel identified with this decision.
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