The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I'd wager that it's going to get better.

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.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.