Even though he belongs to the most conservative wing of the Catholic Church, and is a fierce enemy of the equality of women and gay people.
Even though he is an inflexible religious reactionary, like most of the other old men at the Vatican.
I can't help hoping that the first Pope from the New World, this humble man, this friend of the poor, will humanize his church and bring some light into its darkness.
But that will not happen until he bares his humanity, and talks about what he did or didn't do during the infernal darkness of the Dirty War.
