Pope Francis’ struggle to reform the Catholic Church. Ep. 119

Pope Francis’ reforms of the Catholic Church are, depending on whom
you ask, a long-awaited breath of fresh air or a slippery slope
toward surrender to the modern world. Austen Ivereigh, who has
already written one biography of Pope Francis and closely
documented the historic events of his papacy, is out with a new
book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert
the Catholic Church. We ask Austen about why exactly some in the
church are resistant to or skeptical of the pope, what Francis’
biggest reforms have been and what complaint Pope Francis had with
his first book.  In Signs of the Times, we look at an exciting
new initiative in San Diego, where Bishop Robert McElroy proposed
that by the end of 2022, 25 percent of parish leadership positions
should be filled by young adults. We also talk about the U.S.
bishops’ meeting in Baltimore, where they elected their first
Latino president, and what it could mean for the present and future
of the church. Plus: a look at the falling number of Latino
Catholics in the United States and Georgetown University’s plans to
make reparations to the descendants of slaves sold by the Jesuits
in 1838. Tell us what you think about the episode on our Facebook
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your hosts each week! Links from the showArchbishop Jose Gomez
elected first Latino president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops Study finds US Latinos are no longer majority-Catholic.
Here are some reasons why. San Diego’s Catholic Church works to
recruit more millennials Georgetown reparations plan for slaves
sold by university draws criticism from students Pope Francis on
prison systems: ‘We will be judged on this’ USCCB Statement on
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