Pope has vision of a true reformer

It isn’t often you hear the head of the Catholic Church put dialogue before dogma but, then Pope Francis is no ordinary pontiff.

From the very start of his papacy Francis has shown himself to be a singular figure — mysterious, yet accessible, and without the stern demeanour of his immediate predecessor.

But what appeared up to now to be either style over substance, or simply a strategy to ingratiate and engage with the wider Catholic community, could, in fact, signal a quiet revolution.