Prescient!
Chris Rennie blogged in June 2010: If Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t get a good priest-offender communication strategy underway pretty soon, he’ll be resigning. Preposterous, you might say – it’s...
View ArticleLiking the new Pope
I blogged last week that so far I thought the new Pope was looking very promising, and he continues to impress. I’m not Catholic but I want the Catholic Church to have a leader who will do well. The...
View ArticleSorry atheists
Things were looking up for atheists, reports the National Post: The Holy Father is full of surprises, born of true and faithful humility. On Wednesday he declared that all people, not just Catholics,...
View ArticlePope continues to impress
Pope Francis continues to impress. Stuff reports: Pope Francis has reached out to gays, saying he won’t judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference...
View ArticlePope just gets better
News.com.au reports: Francis has charmed the masses with his informal style, simplicity and sense of humour – and a handful of strangers have gotten the treatment up close, receiving papal phone calls...
View ArticleMore good sense from Pope Francis
Stuff reports: Pope Francis said the Catholic Church should not allow its bans on gay marriage, abortion and contraception to dominate its teachings, but must be a more welcoming Church where priests...
View ArticleDom Post on The Pope
The Dominion Post editorial: He prefers a Vatican guesthouse to the luxurious papal apartment occupied by his predecessors, he’s swapped a bulletproof limousine for a battered old runabout with...
View ArticlePope Francis’ winning ways
So many “VIPs” would shuffle a young intruder off the stage, or at least have their staff do it. But the reaction of Pope Francis to the six year old boy is part of why he is becoming such a beloved...
View ArticleAll Popes are anti-capitalist
Chris Trotter is excited that Pope Benedict has attack capitalism: Pope Francis, like his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, is challenging the powerful to see the world through new eyes. The question,...
View ArticlePrescient!
Chris Rennie blogged in June 2010: If Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t get a good priest-offender communication strategy underway pretty soon, he’ll be resigning. Preposterous, you might say – it’s...
View ArticleLiking the new Pope
I blogged last week that so far I thought the new Pope was looking very promising, and he continues to impress. I’m not Catholic but I want the Catholic Church to have a leader who will do well. The...
View ArticleSorry atheists
Things were looking up for atheists, reports the National Post: The Holy Father is full of surprises, born of true and faithful humility. On Wednesday he declared that all people, not just Catholics,...
View ArticlePope continues to impress
Pope Francis continues to impress. Stuff reports: Pope Francis has reached out to gays, saying he won’t judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference...
View ArticlePope just gets better
News.com.au reports: Francis has charmed the masses with his informal style, simplicity and sense of humour – and a handful of strangers have gotten the treatment up close, receiving papal phone calls...
View ArticleMore good sense from Pope Francis
Stuff reports: Pope Francis said the Catholic Church should not allow its bans on gay marriage, abortion and contraception to dominate its teachings, but must be a more welcoming Church where priests...
View ArticleDom Post on The Pope
The Dominion Post editorial: He prefers a Vatican guesthouse to the luxurious papal apartment occupied by his predecessors, he’s swapped a bulletproof limousine for a battered old runabout with...
View ArticlePope Francis’ winning ways
So many “VIPs” would shuffle a young intruder off the stage, or at least have their staff do it. But the reaction of Pope Francis to the six year old boy is part of why he is becoming such a beloved...
View ArticleAll Popes are anti-capitalist
Chris Trotter is excited that Pope Benedict has attack capitalism: Pope Francis, like his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, is challenging the powerful to see the world through new eyes. The question,...
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