Three expert Vatican watchers weigh in on the future under our new pope:
Hofstra Prof. Phyllis Zagano, an expert in the history of women deacons, believes women may make some gains under our new pope.
She will be speaking at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, at St. Joseph College on Long Island on “Women in Ministry,” as part of the college’s Institute for the Study of Religion in Community Life’s “Vatican II — 50 Years Later” lecture series. For information, call 631-687-1496 or email S. Suzanne Franck at sfranck@sjcny.edu.
Prof. Mark Silk, director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for Religion and Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, wonders:
Macchiavellian attempt by the cardinals to convince Catholics that the institution so reflects his simplicity and humility, that we should turn a blind eye to its doing business as usual? Find that column and more on Mark Silk’s blog, Spiritual Politics, at http://marksilk.religionnews.com/
College of the Holy Cross Prof. Mat Schmalz hopes Francis’s papacy will bring together Franciscan and Jesuit approaches to spirituality.The full text of Pope Francis’s inaugural homily:
Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith 