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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Brad Miner
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Eduardo J. Echeverria
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The pope and the end of an era
Andrea Gagliarducci, MondayVatican
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Church is retiring from the intellectual arena with the excuse of going to the peripheries. Work at the peripheries risks overshadowing intellectual debates. Thus, it is no surprise that Cardinal Caffarra’s death leaves a certain nostalgia for a Church that did not fear to say what it wanted to say. That Church knew the mercy of truth, while today’s debate is polarized on being pro- or anti-Francis.