text: The last non-Italian pope before JP2 was Adrian IV from the Netherlands who was elected in response to the political corruption following the Borgia and d'Medici papacies.  When Adrian finally arrived in Rome [he was not in the conclave] he was disturbed because he was greeted by a phalanx of fully armored knights.  
  
  Adrian is reported to have directed a question to the papal carmerlengo:  "I only wanted to be greeted by the cardinals."  The carmerlengo had to explain:  "Your Holiness, these are the cardinals."
  
  Papa Francesco is constrained in what he can do politically by the very twisted hierarchs that elected him pope and now lead the church.  We should pray for him.  We need to continue to teach the Beatitudes, hope for the day when we Catholics can once again speak aloud the truth in the church of our birth.