I’m not sure what to make of the Holy Father’s most recent comments, again on an airplane back to Rome, from his papal visit to Mauritius and Mozambique. He doubled down on his response to the apparent ‘criticism’ from a certain sector of the Church in America, which seems to have unsettled him, and touched a nerve. He claims that certain people, stuck in a rigid ideology, which masks some morbid ‘moral failings’, are precipitating schism, of which he, Pope Francis, is not afraid.
I for one am rather certain that this is not what Pope John Paul II meant when
