Pope Francis, during his Philippine visit, wants to listen to the stories of suffering and want. He has expressed preference for visits to devastated villages, hamlets of poverty and the ancient institutions that have been the keeper of the Catholic faith. Progressive and trailblazing in his economic ideas, he is steering the work of the Church to serve the constituencies mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount, the greatest speech delivered, bar none.

He is called the “ Pope of the Slums” because he is more concerned about wretched and brutalized lives than schmoozing with the religious and political royalty and the business elite. I do not know how he would react to the stories of Filipino priests who sucked up to Janet Napoles, the same priests who have been passionately defended by the Church leadership.

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