What an honor, to have the Pope fall asleep with your book in his hand! That’s apparently what happened with Cardinal Walter Kasper’s new work Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Life. Pope Francis, addressing the extraordinary consistory of cardinals on the second day, veered from his prepared remarks to talk about what he was reading. He said: Yesterday, before falling asleep (though not in order to fall asleep!), I read-–I re-read Cardinal Kasper’s work,... Read more