By overtly beginning to re-balance the fulcrum towards conscience over subservience Pope Francis has done more for the companionship of the followers of Christ in Christ than anyone since Pope John XXIII. In that he has made possible the sense of mercy; loosened mercy; mercy offered, given and received. And this more so than, but underlined by, the "year of mercy". It has spoken to believers, non-believers, the troubled and the cafeterians, those who have left  - all of good will - that they are within, somehow.