A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church, while perceived as a revelation by many, has provoked division throughout the world. "If a conclave were to be held today," one Roman source told The New Yorker, "Francis would be lucky to get ten votes." In To Change the Church, Douthat ...
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A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church, while perceived as a revelation by many, has provoked division throughout the world. "If a conclave were to be held today," one Roman source told The New Yorker, "Francis would be lucky to get ten votes." In To Change the Church, Douthat explains why the particular debate Francis has opened-over communion for the divorced and the remarried-is so dangerous: How it cuts to the heart of the larger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual revolution and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the church from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Douthat argues that the Francis era is a crucial experiment for all of Western civilization, which is facing resurgent external enemies (from ISIS to Putin) even as it struggles with its own internal divisions, its decadence, and self-doubt. Whether Francis or his critics are right won't just determine whether he ends up as a hero or a tragic figure for Catholics. It will determine whether he's a hero, or a gambler who's betraying both his church and his civilization into the hands of its enemies.
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The author is from the New York Times, so the writing is good and the book is well-researched. But the author is more than his career. He is a Catholic, interested in the future of his cherished Church. And he is, like most of us, forced to observe the events unfold, having no power over them.
All of which comes across very well. Whether the reader is conservative or liberal, arguments and counterarguments are fleshed-out without bias, and logically proceeded to viable conclusions. The author undeniably has an opinion, but it is not one that is domineering. I was relieved to learn that he is a conservative (hard to imagine that one is not, the more I learn about Francis.)
And I was glad that the author shined a bit beyond being from the New York Times. Given what that institution has become, it requires a few extra words from me to reassure the reader that Ross Douthat isn't a leftist shill. Just the opposite -- a dyed in the wool Catholic with a penchant for logical thinking.
I liked the book a lot and already told my family and friends about it; now I'm telling you.
