Posts Tagged ‘Smell of the sheep’

Ten years in: Pope Francis’s top soundbites

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Pope Francis’s top soundbites

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis almost ten years ago, the world was immediately captivated by his vibrant personality, his simplicity, his love of the poor, and the fresh, and frankly, unusual papal vocabulary he has often adopted. From his first buona sera to his occasional mother-in-law jokes, to his use of symbolic Read more

Vatican-inspired theological revolution

Thursday, July 7th, 2022

I’m not telling you anything new when I say that one of the most toxic problems facing Catholicism is clericalism. By ‘clericalism’ I mean the tendency to place priests on a pedestal, to accept their pronouncements as gospel, encouraging them to feel, as Pope Francis says, ‘superior to lay people.’ It begins in seminary training Read more