Pope trying to show kinder face of Catholic Church

I was surprised to read “Pope is too lenient because of no heart” (Letters, Oct 10) I am not sure, to be fair, if the title reflected accurately the views of the writer, a member of the Third Franciscan order in the US, who wrote his concerns that Pope Francis thinks more with reason than with a spiritual conscience informed by traditional Catholic Church teaching on some moral issues.

Pope Francis is, I think, trying to show the human and kinder face of the Church, that it isn’t all rules and regulation.

The cardinals told him on his election this year that they want to see a shake-up, especially in the Vatican’s curia or civil service.