Pope Francis Vanishing Voices

It is said that a person’s actions and words represent who he or she is to other people. One’s actions and words can represent his or her convictions, morals, and ambitions for the future. These convictions and morals can form the person’s identity. Throughout the stimulus articles, there was a common theme of identity. In the article, “Vanishing Voices”, identity is formed through language, culture, and actions. These identities represent who an individual is to the rest of the world and to themselves. Identity becomes even more influential to people in positions of wealth or power. A person in power’s identity can influence how the world views his or her group of people or organization. Particularly in religion, people with authority strive
He currently is the high power of one the branches of the largest religion in the world, Christianity, which has approximately 2.8 billion followers (“Global Christianity”). Pope Francis currently represents approximately 1.2 billion Roman Catholics (Draper). Pope Francis has been Pope for three years and has addressed issues and promoted beliefs to the world. Through his actions, Pope Francis has influenced the identity of the Catholic Church to the rest of the world. Every one of the Pope’s actions and words can reflect a different identity of the Catholic Church to the rest of the world. All Catholics, non-Catholics, and prominent figures within the Catholic Church can form different views of the Catholic Church, yet as a majority they all see if his actions are having a positive or negative effect on the identity of the Church. In any case, I believe Pope Francis is having a positive influence to the identity of Catholic Church by making the church more in tune with the needs of the people, less vulnerable to greed, more prominent in the issue of global warming, more accepting, and more responsible in cases involving sexual abuse within the