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eNewsletter Subject: Pope Francis: Bemusing?

Every pope has his own unique personality, but Pope Francis introduces characteristics which may be unusual in so high an office. Partly for this reason, he continues to fascinate.

Even the Pope's chief spokesman finds Francis “different”, as he indicated in a recent interview. Phil Lawler comments in On the News: If the Vatican's main spokesman doesn't know what the Pope's doing, who does?

Phil also points us to several interesting articles he discovered over the weekend, including one that offers a new and interesting take on Francis' latest encyclical, Laudato si'. See Monday-morning reading.

The Prefect of the Pontifical Household, on the other hand, finds some of his fellow German bishops even more surprising than the Pope. Consider this recent interview: Archbishop Gänswein on Synod: ‘Why do some pastors want to propose what’s not possible?’...

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