The Pope And The American Right, Ctd
Patrick J Deneen’s piece is very helpful. Money quote: I think it is because of the left’s “narrative of disruption” [about Francis] that the right is panicked over Francis’s critiques of capitalism....
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“While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which...
View ArticleA Pope For The Whiskey Priests
A reader writes: Your post quoting Francis’s wish for a “bruised, hurting and dirty” Church suddenly sparked a match in my head – the face of the Whiskey Priest, the protagonist from one of my...
View ArticleWho Is Matthew In The Calling Of St. Matthew?
Richard Beck ponders Caravaggio’s intentions: Most think Matthew is the bearded man. It appears that he’s pointing to himself as if to say “Me?” in response to Jesus’s call. This theory is supported...
View ArticleA Pope Even Protestants Can Love
Reflecting on the way a number of evangelical heavyweights have praised Pope Francis, the Catholic commentator Raymond Arroyo explains the reasons behind the ecumenical admiration: One is the great...
View Article“The Thing That Used To Be Conservatism”
Mark Shea takes on Fox News, Limbaugh and Drudge in their ignorant, stupid, malevolent attacks on Pope Francis. It’s a rocking rant.
View ArticleThe Message Of Francis
How E.J. Dionne Jr. understands the Pope: As the leader of a church that has so long been viewed as dogmatic, hierarchical, and traditional, Francis bids to turn himself into a model of a kind of...
View ArticleQuote For The Day
“When God meets us he tells us two things. The first thing he says is: have hope. God always opens doors, he never closes them. He is the father who opens doors for us. The second thing he says is:...
View ArticleExeunt The Theocons, Ctd
My take is here. Pierce praises the Pope’s latest actions: This is smiling Pope Francis’s declaration of war against the legacies of the institutional theological reactionaries who preceded him in...
View ArticleYglesias Award Nominee
“I think [Pope Francis] is a complicated man. And I wrote at the time of his ascension, because I knew something about his passion/compassion for the poor, that he should not simply be judged on where...
View ArticleThe Year Of Francis
Americans agree with Time: Even The Advocate named Francis as their person of the year: As pope, he has not yet said the Catholic Church supports civil unions. But what Francis does say about LGBT...
View ArticleWhy Do So Many Go Hungry?
Pope Francis recently commented on world hunger: With all the food that is left over and thrown away we could feed so many. If we were able to stop wasting and start recycling food, world hunger would...
View ArticleDeep Dish #2: Why Francis Matters
[Re-posted from earlier today] Subscribers are already digging into the latest Deep Dish offering, Untier Of Knots, my essay on Pope Francis released last night: Thank you. Sublime. Beautiful. A...
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“What I love about the pope is he is triggering the exact kind of dialogue we ought to be having. People need to get involved in their communities to make a difference, to fix problems soul to soul,” –...
View ArticleFace Of The Day
Pope Francis attends the Christmas night mass at the St. Peter’s Basilica on December 24, 2013. Pope Francis celebrates the first Christmas of his pontificate. By Franco Origlia/Getty Images.
View ArticleThe Least Of My Brethren
What does the church of Pope Francis look like? A clue from Rome.
View ArticleThe Pope Speaks; The GOP Flails
The new line, deployed against Pope Francis’ dismay at the materialism and ideological fixity of global market capitalism, is that the Pope was only referring to Argentina. Global capitalism in...
View ArticleWhy Francis Matters, Ctd
Scores of readers over the holidays dove into the latest Deep Dish. “A mama from the It’s So Personal series” writes: I couldn’t get through the Iraq war Deep Dish – it just made me go to a dark angry...
View ArticleBringing The Church Into Balance
Yesterday, the Pope appointed 19 new Cardinals, none of them Americans. Barbie Latza Nadeau reviews the picks: Francis chose two new cardinals from Africa, two from Asia, two from North and Central...
View ArticleAnd So It Begins … ?
One of the great question marks still hanging over Pope Francis’ tenure as Bishop of Rome is whether any actual doctrinal changes will occur. Damon Linker has a provocative and honest piece out...
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