Austen Ivereigh is the British author of two biographies of Pope Francis, and a book written in collaboration with him. His most recent book is First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis (Loyola Press).
Service, self-abnegation, solidarity, fraternity, courage: in the trial at hand, the grace of conversion is available to the whole of humanity—including the church.
By dragging Benedict into schemes like Cardinal Sarah’s book about celibacy, the anti-Francis faction reveals deep flaws in the current emeritus papacy.
The synod on the Amazon will be remembered as the moment that bishops gathered in Rome asked the pope to ordain married men in order better to serve the poor.
