When Pope Francis stepped off the papal plane in Myanmar, also known as Burma, he walked into a diplomatic minefield, which is exactly where he belonged.
The quagmire centered on whether he would appease a government and military that is overseeing what the United Nations has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” or do the thing that has established him as the most credible world leader today: side with the marginalized. In this instance, they are the Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to mass slaughter, rape and forced migration.
How Francis would be judged on this question centered around whether he would use one word: “Rohingya.