The World Mourns….

The legacy of Pope Francis: Choosing faith over fear
-Michael W Higgins

“The Bergoglio papacy opted for mercy over doctrine, inclusion over exclusion, moral resilience over legal certitude and the priority of intuition over certainty. Faith over fear.

In the end, for the duration of his decade-plus pontificate, Francis was the disruptor pope: disrupting the established pattern of doing things by replacing a magisterial with a synodal way of being a church, with less hierarchy and more lay involvement; disrupting the spiritual and intellectual complacency that besets institutional Catholicism; disrupting an ahistorical understanding of the church that shields us from the reforming gusts of the Spirit.”

In the recent article by Michael Higgins he reflects on the papacy of Pope Francis - from his blog https://pontifex-minimus.mailchimpsites.com/

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