[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of the late Sixties and Seventies is, frankly, silly. Let's have a little faith in what the Holy Spirit has done among us these past 35 years.

The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.

The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church - the dynamically orthodox parts of the Church - to seize that opportunity.