The Bishop of Rome as Christian Radical

Click this link to read the whole article by George Weigel in First Things. 

"Pope Francis believes that the Church in Latin America took a decisive step toward a new future in 2007. Then, at the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, held at Aparecida in Brazil, the leaders of the Church moved far beyond the “kept” Catholicism of the past—the Catholicism that was “kept” by legal establishment or, more recently, cultural habit—and embraced a robustly Evangelical Catholicism in which, as the pope wrote, “the whole of ministry (is) in a missionary key.”


The move from “kept” Catholicism to Evangelical Catholicism is for everyone, the pope seems convinced."