Monday, October 6, 2014

Korean Colleague (2 of 2): Pope Francis’s visit to Korea.

That same night I sounded out my colleague about Pope Francis’s recent visit to Korea.

It turns out that people suspect that Pope Francis openly rebuked Korea’s current cardinal…

During the visit, Pope Francis took a yellow ribbon from the parent of a Seowol ferry disaster victim and wore it on his cassock a lot afterwards, and on the plane ride back said that “someone” had tried to persuade him to remain non-partisan and not wear it (to which Pope Francis said that people must always take sides with the suffering, which quote got a lot of press).


In Korea, everyone thinks that that “someone” was Korea’s current cardinal, who’s very buddy buddy with the government.

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