God does not treat us as "little kids".  Jesus recognized this in his own followers, when he stated that "I call you friends."  

Secondly, humans live in a secular world.  THIS is the very real world in which we are to work out our mission to cooperate with God in bringing about the betterment of all of creation.  We have no other world in which to do this.


The role of the pontiff is the role of chief administrator of the church.  It corresponds with the anointing that we all received at baptism---of priest, prophet and king.  The 'kingly' role does correspond with 'head of the household,' and 'chief steward.'   This is as much a part of Francis' role as 'Vicar of Christ'.  Jesus, who probably would have called the Curia [some of them, anyway]----'hypocrites and whitewashed tombs' [Matt. 23:27-28], by now.