How 9-11 led to Pope Francis

I want to share with you an article I wrote in the Times of Malta and appeared yesterday. It shows how some turn of events led to Pope Francis getting some unexpected exposure after the tragic events of September 11, 2001. This may have led to him being elected Pope in 2013. It just happened that the Bishop’s Synod was due to start inRome on Septmeber 15 , 2001. And the main coordinator was Cardinal Edward Egan of New York. Since he had to urgently return back to his community and devastated city unexpectedly, the second person to run the synod was Cardinal Joreg Bergoglio, who had just been created a Cardinal only 7 months earlier. Read the whole story here: (Unfortunately the blogger is not allowing direct link to the article - so kindly copy the following link and paste - Thank you - Fr Julian) https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/how-9-11-led-to-pope-francis-election-fr-julian-cassar.900902