...“He learned )click here) that scores of homeless people were sleeping rough literally on his doorstep, sheltering in the embrace of Bernini’s colonnades facing St. Peter’s Basilica, or in doorways around the Vatican. So he asked his almoner, the Polish priest whose job it is to help the most needy in the Vatican neighborhood, to distribute hundreds of new sleeping bags, to install showers in the public toilets discreetly hidden behind the colonnades, and to arrange for a barber to give free haircuts once a week."...
It is pretty heady stuff. He is the authority on God for all Catholics in the world. The entire world. Yet, he reaches for the poor and the neglected and those least thought of, as a global leader. He has the heart and soul of 20 percent of the world's population. He is unmatched in his influence.
