The pope’s speech outside the Capitol conveyed a spirit of inclusivity and solidarity.
Pope Francis
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The Labor Prospect: Pitching the Pope
Francis I’s laborious arrival, Scott Walker’s fall, and the South’s low-wage bonanza.
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If the Pope Wanted to Help the Poor, He’d Be a Feminist
Progressives are too easily taken in by talk of climate change and capitalism.
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A Radical Pope
Francis has challenged the Catholic Church. How much can he change it?
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Did Pope Francis Throw the Symbolism Contest to the Palestinians?
For the head of the Catholic Church to visit a Jewish memorial and say nothing of the historical Holocaust—the Jewish victims; the role of the Church in creating in European anti-Semitism—is jarring.
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Francis and His Predecessors
Why the new pope’s tenure may be less liberal but more countercultural than it seems.
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Pope Francis’s “Cardinal” Rules
Thinking about Otto Preminger’s film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.
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Pope on Gay Priests: “Who Am I to Judge?”
On a Monday morning flight home from Brazil, Pope Francis said,”If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” During that airborne press conference, Francis reaffirmed the church’s ban on female priests.
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Francis I, a Jesuit Pope
What having a Jesuit pontiff says about hope for change in the Catholic Church