Pope Francis and a more open church

Published September 24, 2015 4:01am ET



“Don’t you just love our pope?”

The middle-aged Nashville woman making that joyous exclamation to me, a Jesuit priest, was not Roman Catholic but, rather, a member of a local Church of Christ. We were exchanging pleasantries before my presenting on a panel about Pope Francis during an annual Churches of Christ theological conference at Lipscomb University last year.

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