Francis on women & Cuba

I sent this article alert to friends:

Best comment I've ever read about Francis & women!

When it comes to women, Francis has 5 strikes but he's not out.

Poet John Chuchman emailed in response,

Two outs bottom of ninth 

I expect it’ll go into additional innings.

Tom Reese’s analysis recalls all the embarrassing missteps of the pope in his statements about women—his naïve acceptance of past perceptions. If you’ve been following the issue, you’ll find them here. They were red flags for me.  

Reese explains them in the same way I did but more knowledgeably. I had intuitive glimmerings; he gives the evidence.

To Chris (see comments in older posts) I repeat: Read more of my writing to learn what I really say about the divinity of Jesus and all creation.

Pope opens Cuba to U.S.   December 18, 2014

I give you stories of interest to Catholics, and maybe others because of Pope Francis’ popularity as well as the popularity of religious sisters.

The big story: Pope Francis was instrumental in reconciling Cuba and the U.S.  It was Francis who broke down Raul Castro and persuaded him to stop assigning enemy status to the U.S.

And there’s NCR’s take on the deal with Cuba.

And HERE  you can read how religious sisters respond to release of the Vatican’s report on its investigation of women religious. 

Two more.  Joan Chittister's take on the Vatican's report.

 And S. Sandra Schneiders, always spilling out wisdom, goes deeper. She notes differences in style between the threatening announcement of the investigation and the recent appreciative report praising the sisters’ work.