Does Being Catholic Change How I Write About Pope Francis?

There’s no way for me to know until I do the writing, but let’s just say that I am deeply suspicious, as is Benedict XVI, of ‘the hermeneutics of rupture.’ In fact, three things happened in my secular academic life in 2014 that made me realize that there’s no sense in trying to separate spirituality and politics when writing about the Catholic Church, period, whether devotionally or analytically. Because I stopped seeing this rupture between devotion and analysis, I think it is also difficult for me to see how my chrismation a month ago ruptured anything.