August 2014 Issue [Essay]

Francis and the Nuns

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Is the new Vatican all talk?

by Mary Gordon,

A year ago this month, Pope Francis gave a long interview to Antonio Spadaro, the editor in chief of an Italian Jesuit journal called La Civiltà Cattolica. Francis was just a few months into his papacy at the time, and the interview — published simultaneously by more than a dozen Jesuit outlets — was for many people around the world their introduction to the first Latin-American pontiff. The interview is long and complex, but a few words were quoted everywhere. “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,” Francis told Spadaro. “When…

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Mary Gordonis the author of seventeen books, including a study of the Gospels and a biography of Joan of Arc. Her new collection of novellas, The Liar’s Wife, is being published this month by Pantheon. She teaches at Barnard College.

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