Tag: Pope Francis
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Looking to the Eastern Church for Reform in Rome
In Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses, Adam A.J. DeVille considers possible reforms to Roman Catholicism that respect tradition while reducing abuse and increasing accountability. The book’s strength is that while it challenges many common assumptions about the Church, it does not fall into the traps of either presuming that the…
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Why Busy Catholics Should Read Fratelli Tutti
[Check out my post on Where Peter Is. Here is a sample.] I am a busy husband and dad with a demanding job, so reading a lengthy papal document is not the easiest thing to take the time to do, nor is it typically high on my list of things to do. That said, over…
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Can You Have Too Much Mercy? Reading Pope Francis’s The Name of God is Mercy
The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis and Andrea Tornielli I recall stopping to think, coffee cup mid-air, when I first heard these words from Pope Francis: I would think that a few very rigid people would do well to slip a little, so that they could remember that they are sinners and…
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