Expect Continuity more than Change

When on March 14, 2013, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose the archbishop of Buenos Aires as new Pope the election was no surprise to the cognoscenti. Soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the German press leaked the details of his election in 2005, which showed Bergoglio was in second place after Cardinal Ratzinger, then seen as Washington’s favourite. Hence, as Hans Atrott, author of Jesus Bluff points out, it did not take genius to infer that the man who was second in 2005 c