Kraków
Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, and 10 years after Benedict XVI’s address at Regensburg, Pope Francis has adopted the consensus of the secular elite in relation to the threat of jihadist terror.
Fresh from a triumphant World Youth Day in Kraków where he both inspired and challenged more than a million young people, Pope Francis explained why he did not speak about the Islamic dimension of Islamist terror. It was a replay of his first foreign trip, to WYD in Rio de Janeiro in 2013, when that magnificent occasion was completely overwhelmed by the airborne unveiling, en route back to Rome, of the unofficial motto of the pontificate, “Who am I to judge?” – Francis’s updating of John Paul’s “Be not afraid.”
