Peter Laffin: Pope Francis ‘was not left or right’ but connected ‘God down to us’ - Washington Examiner

Peter Laffin: Pope Francis ‘was not left or right’ but connected ‘God down to us’ - Washington Examiner

The Washington Examiner‘s Peter Laffin suggested the late Pope Francis did not fit into the American left-right political paradigm after funeral services for Francis were held in Vatican City Saturday. Francis’s funeral mass gathered world leaders, including President Donald Trump, to St. Peter’s Square to honor the late pontiff commonly referred to as “the people’s Pope.” Laffin joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Saturday morning shortly after …

A few months ago my dear Julio Llorente wrote a column in which he presented a curious thesis: that Francis was the Pope of orthodoxy. Of him it has stood out just the opposite, a supposed heterodoxy that has displeased conservatives and illusioned progressives. Both in life and his death, there are not few who have tried to attribute to Pope Francis an ideology, as if the Church was not 1,800 years before the narrow left/right scheme in which m…

From Peter to Francis: Faith, Sacrifice, and the Weight of Leadership…

Fr. William/Conswater is an Anglican Priest in England, but was born and educated in Belfast. The death of the Holy Father has dominated the news and saddened many of our hearts. The set church reading for the other day was  from Acts and reports words from St Peter and of course, the Pope, any Pope, is regarded by many as the successor of Saint Peter. In Acts we read of St Peter speaking these words: Repent and be baptised, every one of you, i…