The First Step: Pope Francis ... What's Your Opinion?

The one thing that I've seen plastered across multiple media sources (including print, social media, radio and television) is the new pope. Pope Francis. Now he is a strange choice for pope (apparently ... I have never really followed the news in Rome) because of many reasons. Instead of taking the royal transport after he was selected as the new pope, he hopped on the public transport and rode it to his hotel. He then proceeded to pay his bill and pack up his things. What was odd about this was once he was chosen for pop he technically owned the hotel in which he was staying. He didn't have to pay anything. He also wanted the money paid for the royal transport be given to a charity. It seems we have a charitable and down-to-earth pope on our hands. I believe this could be considered as good, but hopefully he'll know the extent at which he can go. Let us gaze into the possible future ...

Say Pope Francis finds a new charity in Rome that needs large funds. He decides that the needs of many outweigh the needs of the few, so he gives most of the money from church (and a bit extra) to this charity. What he doesn't know is this charity is actually just a scam and Francis has just unknowingly given all the money that he has to this fake charity. Now he has the experience of giving money to the wrong people and is a bit more hesitant to give more money away. This can cause even more problems with things like sketchy-looking-but-sincere charities being turned away. (Keep in mind, this is purely hypothetical and probably unrealistic ... but not completely ruled out.) With this considered, Pope Francis could charitable but without a leash he could be dangerous.

This is just one possibility however. Pope Francis could be the best person in the world. Say he gave the exact same amount of money from the above scenario to a legitimate charity. This charity goes on to save thousands of lives from some unknown disease that has not yet been discovered perhaps. Pope Francis is recognised as the founder of that cure for being the the financial stability for the company. He is then offered a title or global recognition, but of course turns it down because he is noble and humble. This makes him charitable, generous, helpful, kind, caring, noble, AND humble. Suddenly, he was the best choice of all the pope-applicants.

The point is, I have not met Pope Francis (nor have I been anywhere near the Vatican), I cannot tell the future, and I haven't been paying attention to any of the popes over the years. This gives me absolutely no opinion as to what kind of person Francis is, what kind of pope he is and will become, and I CERTAINLY have no right to slander him over social media. However, this seemed to be a common thing for many young adults these days. Most young people think that they know everything there is to know about everything in the world and that their opinion is the only opinion that can be voiced. Although they have nothing to stand on (or possibly a little bit of fact that's been blown out of proportion) they still stick to their beliefs and opinions stubbornly.

My opinion of this? Take a leaf out of Pope Francis's book. He has been given great responsibility but is still human. He can relate to the people when he is considered to be much more than a common man around Rome. Now this is just my opinion and I'm not saying you should take it to heart ... but there's some people who should just consider it. That's all.