22 September, 2013

Pope Francis’ Catholic Church: Stephen Colbert is replacing Antonin Scalia as America’s Catholic. - Slate Magazine

Pope Francis’ Catholic Church: Stephen Colbert is replacing Antonin Scalia as America’s Catholic. - Slate Magazine: For proof, of course, just look to Pope Francis, the selfie-taking, Twitter-using, biker gang-blessing, money-hating, atheist-redeeming, female-prisoner’s-foot-kissing Jesuit who made liberal Catholics everywhere gnaw ecstatically on their rosaries with an interview in the Jesuit weekly America magazine (excerpts of which were republished in the New York Times). In the interview, he makes it clear that, in contrast to his glamorous predecessor, Francis wants to frame the church as an institution by and for the poor. He’s sharply critical of “authoritarian” decision-making (specifically from his own past), “closed and rigid thought,” and “censorship.”