66: Making Sense of Pope Francis—Philip Lawler

<p>I keep having the same exchange with my seriously Catholic friends whenever Pope Francis comes up in conversation. It goes something like this: we were enthused about the initial days of the election (he was saying things about evangelization that needed saying, he encouraged us to get out of “mindset ruts” and bring the gospel to the peripheries since the periphery dwellers aren’t knocking on the church door) and then….something happened to the enthusiasm.</p> <p>Troubling things were said during airplane interviews (which have become more frequent), homilies began to sound more and more political, then official...