{"id":23618,"date":"2013-06-04T06:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T10:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=23618"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:51:25","slug":"francis-a-pope-for-the-age-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/06\/francis-a-pope-for-the-age-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis: A Pope for the Age of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A great insight from Elizabeth Tenety at the Washington Post:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In homilies and speeches in the months since assuming the Seat of Saint Peter,\u00a0Pope Francis<\/a>\u00a0has demonstrated his\u00a0simple style applies not only to his dress and living accommodations<\/a>\u00a0\u2013but to the words he uses to share the faith. A few recent examples:<\/p>\n

Eternity \u201cwill not be boring<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLong faces cannot proclaim Jesus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWar is madness. It is the suicide of humanity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not part-time Christians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe\u00a0Lord has redeemed all of us<\/a>, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone!\u00a0\u2018Father, the atheists?\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Even the atheists.<\/a>\u00a0Everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about a single mother who goes to church<\/a>, in the parish and to the secretary she says: \u2018I want my child baptized\u2019. And then this Christian, this Christian says: \u2018No, you cannot because you\u2019re not married!\u2019. But look, this girl who had the courage to carry her pregnancy and not to return her son to the sender, what is it? A closed door! This is not zeal! It is far from the Lord!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the investments in the banks fall slightly<\/a>\u2026 [it is] a tragedy\u2026 what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing to eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!\u201d<\/p>\n

In\u00a0contrast\u00a0to the richly theological style of Pope Benedict, Pope Francis seems a pope made for the age of tweets. His \u201csimple, direct language<\/a>,\u201d (as described by\u00a0L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em>, the Vatican\u2019s newspaper) is making the sometimes-mystical leader of the world\u2019s 1.2 billion Catholics veritably meme-worthy.\u00a0And that is raising eyebrows across the religious spectrum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more<\/a><\/strong> about what she calls his \u201cmade-for-meme style.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great insight from Elizabeth Tenety at the Washington Post:\u00a0 In homilies and speeches in the months since assuming the Seat of Saint Peter,\u00a0Pope Francis\u00a0has demonstrated his\u00a0simple style applies not only to his dress and living accommodations\u00a0\u2013but to the words he uses to share the faith. A few recent examples: Eternity \u201cwill not be boring.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1413],"class_list":["post-23618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope","tag-pope-francis"],"yoast_head":"\nFrancis: A Pope for the Age of Twitter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A great insight from Elizabeth Tenety at the Washington Post:\u00a0 In homilies and speeches in the months since assuming the Seat of Saint Peter,\u00a0Pope\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/06\/francis-a-pope-for-the-age-of-twitter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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