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    On a recent segment of "60 Minutes," Pope Francis gave a serious critique when asked about the conservative bishops in the United States who oppose his new efforts to revisit teachings and traditions. “Conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude, because one thing is to take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed up inside a dogmatic box,” the pope said. Pat Gray and...

  • Pope Francis' interview must have disappointed Catholic conservatives — and progressives

    Listening to Pope Francis' television interview with CBS News’ Nora O’Donnell was a refreshing relief from the retro and reductive Harrison Butker commencement address at Benedictine College, where Butker suggested that women were at their best as mothers and that there was much disorder in the church. Butker should run the hourlong discussion on a loop at home and study it. He might learn a few things about what Catholic teaching really is. Pope Francis’ conversation with O’Donnell was not...

  • Pope Francis: Political enigma

    There are two things that Pope Francis’s recent interview with 60 Minutes made clear: He is a complicated figure who cannot be easily boxed into a specific ideology, and the media likes to paint him as someone he is not. The interview, which was conducted by Norah O’Donnell, is a fascinating window into the thinking […]