I find myself watching Pope Francis and wondering if  there is going to be anything more to his papacy or, in the alternative, it will be remembered for his inspiring words and gestures, and a few structural changes, but nothing radical in the sense of getting at the roots of the malaise that afflicts both church and world. There is so much to admire in the man, it seems almost petty to dismiss his tenure as so many bold words without enough bold gestures. 
Perhaps it's wrong to expect great things of popes these days. Perhaps my expectations of greatness aren't his. But I have this feeling we've been blessed with a holy chaplain or spiritual director, when what we really need is a reformer. I don't know how much longer the church can survive in a world of Nones without someone to inject  fresh blood -- not just plasma, but new whole blood -- into its veins.