ON Erin’s green valleys and in her once-devoted towns and villages the call to honour a visiting pontiff was only sparsely answered. The visit of Pope Francis to Ireland last week carried none of the power and the glory of Pope John Paul II’s in 1979 and far less resonance. Francis, the Argentinian Jesuit. was not quite on his hands and knees seeking forgiveness for the sins of his church but he might as well have been. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16617230.kevin-mckenna-perhaps-we-need-a-second-reformation-to-finish-the-job-of-the-first/