Kansas City Faith Blogger Considers Unpredictable New Pope

An American leads the Church for the first time in its history and so we think local perspectives are even more relevant . . .

Accordingly, we look to Kansas City's top writer on faith & morals . . . Here's what journalist Bill Tammeus noted regarding the new pontiff . . .

"Change for institutional religion, after all, almost always comes at a crawling pace that many find painful and frustrating -- and often with good reason. But that pace of change has allowed the church to survive. And it has allowed it now to be led by a man who seems eminently suited to continuing that careful pace of change even as he reminds Catholics -- as he did in his first words after being elected -- that they are followers of the Prince of Peace, of the God of love and of a surprising, unpredictable Holy Spirit who calls people to meet the rarely predictable Jesus as the risen Christ."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Faith Matters Blog: Is this new pope predictable? Almost certainly not.

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