Here's the way the rest of Francis's pontificate is going to roll out, or better, unravel.

Francis increasingly is inserting himself into this or that issue, correcting a brilliant African Cardinal (twice now, hmmm), Muller, Schönborn {(just today) or some bishop, a priest, or group.

He also finds himself seconding what some priest says...like Martin, or what some wacky theologian says.

He corrects, but he also seems unable to not weigh in and speak his mind on nearly every other subject under the sun.

So net:  he's now an ardent and impatient Latin American micromanager....he's the busy tuner.   The clock watcher. 

The bishops are observing.    

And they will begin to exert their own quiet power, testing the pope, causing fRANCIS to swoop in and correct this bishop or that bishop, perhaps the Madison Bishop of this story.

If Francis swoops in to fix this "funeral" topic watch the number of other issues that will arise, driving him to distraction.

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