Excellent article on Pope Francis on the eve of the Feast of St. Ignatius. "Pope Francis has been the focus of much commentary for his Franciscan spirit, his simplicity, love of the poor and concern for nature. There is also much in our new pope’s style that demonstrates his Jesuit spirituality, above all his freedom with respect to the traditional trappings of the papacy." "Humility is the most difficult part of the Ignatian papal reform, but it is essential for the church’s purification from clericalism, the source of so many ills in the contemporary church. Undoubtedly, it is here that Francis’s reform will receive the most resistance from beneficiaries of the millennial-old system and from recent acolytes who have invested themselves in a post-Tridentine model of the Church Triumphant. But as Michael Sean Winters proposed in his National Catholic Reporter column yesterday, reform through spiritual renewal is essential to make the New Evangelization real and effective both within the church and in her encounter with the world." Happy feast day of St. Ignatius to all! +AMDG+
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:30:07 +0000
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