The selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was met with excitement yesterday. Terry Rey, chair of religion at Temple, hailed Bergoglio's selection, which he called "a very safe and strategic move by the Catholic Church hierarchy." Since the 1960s, Rey said, "the cardinals and bishops have been keenly aware that in order for the Catholic Church to remain relevant to the contemporary world, they must listen more carefully and sincerely to the faithful from those parts of God's creation that Europe colonized.”