The Insights eNewsletter
Insights provides critical perspective on the issues that affect your life as a Catholic today. Delivered twice weekly.
» Subscribe
This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on October 28, 2014.
eNewsletter Subject: Francis the Man, Francis the Pope
Once again we find a common theme in the fascinating pontificate of Pope Francis.
For example, writing in response to NY Times columnist Ross Douthat, Phil Lawler clarified his own position in: Could respect for the papacy mean resisting the Pope?
At the same time, there was so much criticism of Pope Francis during the Synod, that I decided today to try once more to calm what in some quarters is a rising panic. See: Does the Kasper Proposal make Pope Francis a heretic? Invalid marriages and mortal sin.
And then I realized another possible source of confusion concerning this papacy, so I decided to write this: Clarifying what it might mean for a pope to wish to change Catholic doctrine....
[more content for subscribers]
There's more to this eNewsletter! Sign up to receive complete Insights!