On balance I like more and more of what I am hearing out of Pope Francis. His call for abandoning traditions that, while beautiful, have lost their meaning and no longer connect to the Gospel is making him sound more like an evangelical all the time. This blog from CNN Beliefnet is an encouraging example.http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/26/pope-calls-for-hurting-and-dirty-church/

They died on the same day, November 22nd 1963, within just a few hours on one another. One, struck down by an assassin's bullet in a scene captured on film for all time and seared into our brains, a scene which played out on the world stage again and again. The other quietly in his …

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