Why is Pope Francis familiar and Benedict hard to remember?

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Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.

Why is Pope Francis familiar and Benedict hard to remember?

Eugene Cullen Kennedy  |  Jun. 27, 2013

Why is it that, although Pope Francis only entered our lives a season ago and Pope Benedict XVI spent eight long -- and I mean long -- years as our Holy Father, does Francis seem like someone we have known a long time while we may say of Benedict what the Irish say of Johnny, that we hardly knew ye?