How can we square this effort of a man nicknamed the “King of Cashmere” with a simple pope who has called for a “church which is poor”?

“What does the midwife tell us to do? Breathe. And then? Push.... Tonight we will breathe. Tomorrow we will labor in love through love, and your revolutionary love is the magic we will show our children.”

Describing the vocation crisis as an “enormous problem,” Pope Francis suggested he sympathizes with Catholics who come to Mass only to discover that there is no priest available to celebrate the Eucharist.

“Creating space for a variety of pastoral responses is not decentralization. It’s a response to the realities in which people live.”

Francis has not been back once since he became pope four years ago. It’s not as though there haven’t been good reasons to come

John A. Coleman, S.J., reviews "A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy" by Clemens Sedmak.