Pope Francis’ Decade-Long Reign Removes Church From Crucial Moral Debates, by Samuel Gregg

By Samuel Gregg, American Spectator, April 26, 2024

On March 13, 2013, I stood among the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square who witnessed the moment when Jorge Bergoglio, the Jesuit cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, walked out onto the balcony following his election as the 265th successor of Saint Peter as the bishop of Rome.

As I left the square that evening, I was happy. From the limited knowledge I had of this new pope — who had taken the name Francis — it was reasonable to be hopeful. His purported remarks to the College of Cardinals, which emphasized the need for the Catholic Church to not be self-referential and bogged down in internal debates that distract from its central mission, seemed very much on point. …

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