Here are a couple of interesting links to stories about the new pope. The first is from the AP (viaTPM), discussing Francis's low-key style, which John Allen sees as perhaps pointing towards an effort to demystify the office a bit.The second is a link to a thoughtful discussion by Katharine Gordon of the Dirty War on the blog, Millennial Journal, produced in connection with Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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