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).
What matters at the Amazon synod is not the imperative of universal consistency across all regions of the church, but the pastoral welfare of the People of God.
Maybe Pell’s time is prison has not been a martyrdom, or even a monstrous injustice, but an expiation that is helping to bring about an overdue pastoral conversion.
