Hard works starts now as Francis marks first year as pope

Now the hard work starts.

Pope Francis celebrates one year in office today swaddled in a blanket of approval world leaders would die for and most of his predecessors could only dream of.

But he also knows there is more to being pontiff than good PR. Bigger challenges lie ahead as Francis seeks to engineer a renaissance of his Church after years of scandals caused by paedophile priests and corruption and intrigue within the Vatican bureaucracy.