Commentary: How Pope Francis must change in 2019

Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have.It began this way: marked by sniping about his reform tendencies, especially where Catholic Church teaching on the family is concerned. As the Vatican geared up for its 2018 synod assembly — a meeting of bishops from around the world who gather in Rome to advise the pope on different issues, this year on youths and vocations — talk that the 2014 and 2015 synod meetings on the family had been rigged in favor of a refor