Pope Francis the Merciful continues the inexorable reform of the "reform of the reform" ... he is building upon the foundations laid by St John XXIII and his Second Vatican Council. The JPII and BXVI pushback is over. I'm reminded of Robert Blair Kaiser's metaphor of the Church as the barque of Peter: "a boat that had been in port for too many centuries, its bottom so encrusted with barnacles that it couldn't even sail. Now, by calling a Council, I said that Pope John had figuratively launched that vessel out on to the seas of the world. My barque-of-Peter image underlined what was different about Vatican II. For all the other councils of history (20 of them) the Church turned inward on itself. This council was turned out to the world." JPII and BXVI brought the barque back into port ... the likes of Chaput want it to stay there, gathering barnacles until it sinks. Pope Francis the Merciful reminds me of Jesus ... he has instructed the helmsman "Duc in Altum" ... put out into the deep!