We've got a lot of work to do. We had a lot of work to do when Benedict XVI was pope, and we have a lot of work to do now that Francis is Pope. We need to kneel down and set to it.
I'm writing this for my own benefit as much as for anyone else. I've been rather too distracted by the least little tidbit of papal trivia, the smallest newsflash, the latest excited or exultant Catholic predictions of happy days under Pope Francis. I'm hopeful, too. I'm joyful, too. And yet I'm neglecting the things I need to be tending to, especially in this season of Lent.
I look forward to English translations of Francis's work soon to come. Until that day arrives, I have a ton of Ratzinger I haven't read, and Pope John Paul II, and John Paul I, and Paul VI, and John XXIII, and on and on. I mean to get my hands on a copy of George Weigel's Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
, and Sherry Weddell's Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus
, and Ryan Topping's Rebuilding Catholic Culture
. I should encourage other people to delve deeply into great books on the Catholic faith in this year of faith like Fr. Michael Gaitley's The One Thing Is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything
, or Pope Benedict's Jesus 
of
Nazareth
series, or Father Mitch Pacwa, SJ's The Year of Faith: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics
, or any number of other awesome books on Jesus, Mary, the Trinity, the Church, etc., etc., ad eternam.I love what I know of our new Holy Father, and I look forward to getting to know him even more in the days of head. In the meantime, I need to turn my prayers to heaven, my attention to my work, and serve Jesus and his Vicar where I'm at.
But I may cheat every now and again. As Simcha Fisher said, it is still Papamoon.
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