Bible In The News

On Wednesday, white smoke belched from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, to announce that a new pope had been elected to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. His appointment as the first Francis, the first Jesuit, the first American and the first non-European pontiff in more than 1250 years, seems to have delighted the media and the Catholic faithful. But we ask: is God delighted? And what does the Bible reveal about this industrial scale, global, religious, corporation?