February 2014
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Slight departure from my too infrequent posts on Evangelii Gaudium, about which much more needs to be said. This week’s news is personal and local for me, as Pope Francis announced an a series of meetings by bishops (called synods) on the topic of the family. One remarkable thing is that he asked all families…
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Some of the themes in Pope Francis’ exhortation are pretty obvious, but others are more subtle. Here’s one of the latter: diversity as a good thing in the Church. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like many Catholics (and many religious believers of any stripe) aren’t so hot on diversity. There’s a tendency, if…
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As I outlined in the last post, I think Francis’ central message is that grace is more central than law. Here, let me show you. Our message as Christians to the rest of the world (and even to each other), needs to skew heavily toward the joy of the forgiven and away from the guilt…
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Look, I’m not an expert. I haven’t read any of the works Pope Francis wrote when he was just Jorge Bergoglio, for instance. But it seems to me that the reason a lot of liberals and conservatives alike wrongly think that Francis is changing Church teaching is because they don’t pick up on the pope’s…
Reading Francis 