There was a snake in the garden of excitement and optimism, however. I can attest to the excitement, the love, and the palpable respect for Pope Francis during all those events I helped to cover when he was in the United States. Jo Renee Formicola puts it like this, in the opening pages of God Weeps: The Catholic Church in America came together, smiling with hopefulness, in the sunshine.
Thousands of Catholics prayed with us, spread across the elm-lined university quad. Hundreds of bishops and priests concelebrated, including your unworthy servant. On a lovely late-summer afternoon, the pope celebrated Holy Mass on the east portico of the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. Reviewed by Father Mark Whiteįive years ago, Pope Francis visited the U.S. Papal Policies on Clerical Sexual Abuse: God Weeps by Jo Renee Formicola.
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