“As a Jesuit, the former cardinal-archbishop of Buenos Aires always follows the same method before making a decision: listen, pray and then decide. The moments of silence, even in the midst of meetings with those closest to him, testify to this.”
“For all that, this spiritual way of deciding things confounds many in the Vatican. And it really confuses those who have an overly political reading of the man in white's decisions, reducing them to a balancing act between antagonistic forces, calculations and intrigues.”
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"Sometimes he says nothing for ten minutes"
"That’s what I feel": the way Francis decides
