Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have chosen the iconoclastic St. Francis as his namesake, prefiguring the issues that have come to define his papacy, namely his dedication to disenfranchised people. In the documentary, he calls poverty the world’s “scandal,” pointing out that 20 percent of the population controls 80 percent of the wealth.
Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have chosen the iconoclastic St. Francis as his namesake, prefiguring the issues that have come to define his papacy, namely his dedication to disenfranchised people. In the documentary, he calls poverty the world’s “scandal,” pointing out that 20 percent of the population controls 80 percent of the wealth.