{"id":15519,"date":"2015-01-27T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:07:16","slug":"a-pope-francis-headline-that-would-shock-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2015\/01\/27\/a-pope-francis-headline-that-would-shock-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pope Francis headline that would shock me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Pope Francis Refuses to Meet with [ANYBODY].<\/h2>\n

That would be news. That would be a headline.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not gonna happen.<\/p>\n

No, you can\u2019t imagine Benedict having a private meeting with a transgendered person and fiancee<\/a>. That\u2019s because\u00a0Benedict was a different kind of pope, who had a different mission. Francis is doing different good things besides the kind of good things that Benedict did. And if you think that Benedict resigned\u00a0with the understanding that the conclave would elect a Benedict clone, and was shocked and horrified to discover that Francis is a different kind of man from him, then you\u2019re either horribly naive, or think Benedict was horribly naive. I vote for the former.<\/p>\n

Francis\u00a0meets with everybody he thinks he can talk to. Everybody. Everybody.<\/em>\u00a0At least so far. So let\u2019s stop being shocked and astonished that he keeps doing the thing that he keeps doing. Let\u2019s stop trying to figure out what it could possibly mean to us, and start thinking about what it could possibly mean to the people he\u2019s meeting. Your outrage is not going to change his behavior. But maybe his behavior can change the way you think about\u00a0about what the modern Church has to offer to the modern world.<\/p>\n

Look, it\u2019s\u00a0news when something interesting happens; I get it. So go ahead and write the headline: Pope Francis Has Private Meeting with Non-Saint. But don\u2019t make up a story to go under that headline \u2014 a story like, \u201cIs Church on the Verge of Going Queer?\u201d or \u201cIn Latest Outrage, Francis Undermines Traditional Marriage.\u201d A legitimate story might go,\u00a0\u201cWhat could Francis be intending, based on everything else he\u2019s said and taught?\u201d That could actually lead somewhere.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know what happened in that private audience. What we do know is that this is a very personal pope, who believes in meeting people whom the world believes the Church despises. He\u2019s going to keep meeting with people. Everybody. Everybody<\/em>. He\u2019s not going to get over it, so maybe we should.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis photo By Benhur Arcayan (Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/h6>\n

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