released 11/2/2018
In his book, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism, Ross Douthat observes that historically, “popes have rarely been the great protagonists of Catholic dramas.” They tend to move slowly, “constrained by tradition,” concerned that making changes too dramatically might “break” the church. Then he asks: “But what happens when a pope sets out to defy this reality, to slip through the bars and evade the constraints, to act in the way that a watching world — and above all a watching media — seems to want the man at the center of the early church to act? . . . What happens when a pope decides to change the church?” In this Friday Feature, Ken Myers talks with Ross Douthat about his understanding of Pope Francis and the future of Roman Catholicism.
14 minutes
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