Having spent the early part of this week in
Australia and New Zealand, I'm arriving today in Rome, where the buzz is about Pope
Francis' blockbuster interview with 16 Jesuit publications around the world,
including America magazine in the United States, in which he pointedly rejects
a church of what he calls "small-minded rules."
In political terms, Francis says something out
loud that arguably had already become clear, but with a degree of candor that
popes don't often provide: "I have never been a right-winger."
At the level of content, there's not much
groundbreaking in the interview with respect to his hour-and-20-minute press
conference aboard the papal plane July 28. He offers the same blend of
traditional doctrine with a deep emphasis on mercy, stressing that the church
needs to be more pastoral and less judgmental in engaging questions such as
abortion, homosexuality and women.
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