No peace for the good - Fr Joe Borg

Isaiah quotes the good Lord saying that there is no peace for the wicked. Well written, but probably only partially true. Sometimes peace eludes the good as well. Take Pope Francis, for example. His summer this year will be a very long, hot one; very little quiet and peace in that.

Francis has never been the kind of man that takes long summer holidays. In August 2014 he told journalists on the plane to South Korea that the last time he took a holiday outside of Buenos Aires was in 1975. He also broke the age-old papal custom of going to Castel Gandolfo in the Alban Hills south of Rome for July and August. Francis says that instead he prefers to stay at home taking things a bit easier than usual and sleeping a little longer. Commentators came up with the word ‘staycation’ to describe this stay-at-home vacation.

But this year’s staycation will be shorter than usual, if it happens at all. Pope Francis – and the Church – have now reached what Robert Mickens describes in a recent number of La Croix as ‘the Kennedy moment’.

In 1961 Gore Vidal, the American writer and intellectual, told Kennedy that he must break up the military-industrial complex as a do or die option. Kennedy’s...