The ‘end of the world’ or ‘end of the earth’

The devil is in the translation.. Here is how the Washington POST reported the Pope’s quote today:! The choice, on the second day of deliberations by a papal conclave, opened a direct connection to the Southern Hemisphere at a critical juncture when secularism and competing faiths are depleting the church’s ranks around the world and … Read moreThe ‘end of the world’ or ‘end of the earth’

A ‘stunned’ Francis I

FIRST AP DISPATCH READS: AP: A stunned-looking Bergoglio shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals had had to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome.