As it is so many time when it comes to the Catholic hierarchy, Papa Francesco must be very political [read carefully picking his spots] because many of his critics are also the very same clerics who supported his election [at the time] - it is absurd to think that now he is easily going to turn his back on the very traditionalists he needs to run the church.  Francesco is playing a political game that is both long in duration and thinking.  The pope's most potent political gambit is to shape the college of cardinals that will choose his successor: that process is designed to ensure stability over time, if not the inspirational pastoral leadership we long for, we so desperately need.