According to the New York Times,<\/a>\u00a0 the Pope was very blunt in one of his first interviews in six months. He said that the Church \u201d should be a \u2018home for all\u2019 and not a \u2018small chapel\u2019 focused on doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.\u201d<\/p>\nOne Catholic, Rev. James Martin, an editor-at-large of America, the Jesuit magazine in New York, was surprised by the Pope\u2019s comments. \u201cHe seems even more of a free-thinker than I thought \u2014 creative, experimental, willing to live on the margins, push boundaries back a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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