What Pope Francis Taught Us
His legacy as a "progressive Pope" who roiled hardliners tells us more about the Church than it does him.
Pope Francis is dead at 88, and is already being remembered as an uncharacteristically progressive Pope. I’ve always hated the “progressive Pope” moniker; I think it gave Francis too much credit, and indicted his institution too little. Because it truth, Francis’s politics were conservative ones. He was anti-abortion. …
