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Listening to the Pope | America Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Pope Francis is comfortable with gray. In the interview, he speaks out against what he calls a “doctrinal security” and offers a gentle critique of those who “stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists.” Pope Francis asks Catholics to move away from a church that “locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules.” Instead he invites Catholics, and invites the church, into the world of uncertainty, which is where most of us live anyway.
The shock when various persons discover that Pope Francis I is the pope of the Catholic Church will be comparable only to that felt by Europeans when they discovered that Barack Obama was the president of the United States of America. But will the pope get his Nobel Peace Prize first?
ReplyDeleteThe difference, however, is that Francis is far, far brighter, and Jesuit-trained, indeed, a Jesuit. The two are nowhere in the same league.
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