text: Whether you agree with this Pope's views on social issues or not, one thing you cannot deny is his Biblical and Christocentric focus on the topic of Mercy. Pope Francis is practicing Jesus's exhortation to the teachers of the Law "Go and learn what it means I will have mercy and not sacrifice". And he is doing it in  a deft way as well that is Christocentric to the core. Because remember Christ did not change the Law. He stated "I have not come to change the Law but to fulfill it"(Matthew 5). 
  
  And yet even though he didn't change the Law he stressed Mercy. We see this in the case of the Woman in adultery.  Christ didn't change the moral code of the Law on adultery. But he also emphasized mercy as well. In the same way Francis has not changed the Doctrine of the Catholic Church. He has said he is still a "son of the Church". But he has also emphasized mercy. Christ balanced Law and Mercy. Francis is balancing doctrine and mercy in a Biblical fashion.