Pope Francis: ‘ethical helmsman’ whose feel for international relations steered church in turbulent times

By Sara Silvestri, Senior Lecturer & UG Programme Director, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London

I met Pope Francis in 2016. It was part of a symposium of the former Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People (now recast by Francis as the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development). I presented some of my work on migration – as attention to migrants and refugees was a central theme of his pontificate, more prominently than for his predecessor, whom I had also met a few years earlier.
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