Even the secular press is noticing…
The Vicar of Snark
Francis has definitely changed the tone in the Vatican…
[From The Week, U.S. Edition]
… READ MOREPope Francis, Insult Comic
Hailed for striking a gentler tone, the pope is actually the vicar of snark
by Michael Brendan Dougherty
The pope’s favorite American prelate, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, opined this week on the character of the church’s biggest celebrity. According to O’Malley, Pope Francis isn’t about to launch a revolution in the church, he’s just changing the tone.
O’Malley said the shift in emphasis is necessary because the church has been in the past “too strident, maybe too repetitious.”
Consider it the fifth interview…
Italian Journal Publishes Conversation with “Pope” Francis on Religious Life
Today, January 3, 2014, the Italian journal La Civilta Cattolica published an article by Francis’ fellow-Jesuit laymanAntonio Spadaro, which consists mostly of the conversation Francis had with Superiors General of various religious orders on November 29, 2013 in Rome, and which Spadaro took notes of. The text, which La Civilta Cattolica refers to as an “interview” (intervista), is only available as a PDF file; click below to download and read it:
“WAKE UP THE WORLD!” –
FRANCIS’ DIALOGUE WITH RELIGIOUS
(Jan. 2014)
PDF Download – Click Here
The text of this article is also available in the original Italian (click) and Spanish (click), likewise in PDF.