"The Luck of the Pontiff" by Gail Collins/New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/opinion/collins-the-luck-of-the-pontiff.html?_r=0

..."Without changing any of the Church’s reactionary rules on contraception, homosexuality or abortion, Francis changed the tone just by saying that Catholics should stop obsessing about sex. I cannot imagine what the nuns who ran my old high school would have thought about that theory. Really, it’s hard to overestimate what an incredible time-saver this is. And instead of just pleading for greater charity toward the poor, Francis decreed that the world needed to drop the idea that when the rich got richer, everybody eventually benefited. Trickle-down economics amounted to a “crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power.” This would have been where he lost Rush Limbaugh..."