The Pope Comes Clean
I am starting to really relax into this papacy now. You may be one of those who feels distinctly nervous every time you hear Pope Francis has given a new interview. This may be because every time he does, the press spin his words into a new story about how he is going to change the Church's teaching. Well, Pope Francis certainly seems intent on changing the Church , but teaching has not changed one jot. Nor will it. Nor can it! Yesterday, Pope Francis revealed much interesting personal detail in a wide-ranging exclusive interview with Elisabetta Piquè, for La Nacion, the main Argentine newspaper, published yesterday, December 7 and reported in America Magazine's National Catholic Review here . In this interview, he addresses press misconceptions regarding the synod, the vexed question of the divorced and remarried, the reform of the Roman Curia, the resistance to him, the alleged sackings of Cardinal Raymond Burke and the head of the Swiss Guards, and new foreign trips....