In this last of my blogs about Pope Francis, I want to express that Pope Francis’s visit to the United States makes clear that he is certainly a pope for social workers. He met with prisoners and [...]
There is a narrative out there in the media and among some pundits that Pope Francis — unlike his predecessors — is not really interested in family. He is said to be interested in the poor, in [...]
Pope Francis’s comments about divorced and remarried Catholics during his Aug. 5 audience generated some media buzz, including this interview that I did on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show. Given the [...]
Here inside the Beltway as we plan for Pope Francis’s visit to us, it can be easy to forget that the original impetus for his travel to the United States was the World Meeting of Families, hosted [...]
In my last post, I reflected on Pope Francis’s exhortation to seek freedom of heart and to reject the false freedom of following wherever our emotions lead us. I presented the story of Carol [...]
The Pope’s recent addresses to other countries can be a helpful guide as we look forward to the Holy Father’s visit. America has been experiencing a kind of social transformation around the [...]
