(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux) Francis has a well-earned reputation as the “Cold Call Pope,” often
phoning people out of the blue who’ve written him or whom he wants to
contact for some other reason. He recently burnished that reputation
with a video call to the 95-year-old grandmother of a member of his
travel team. On Sept. 2, Pope Francis made a video call to the home of the Kallukalam family in the southern Indian state of Kerala,
which was answered by Father Thomas Kallukalam, who belongs to India’s
Syro-Malabar church, one of the 23 eastern churches in communion with
Rome. (...)
