Listen. That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract.
The Vatican has been turned upside down, but can he ensure that his radical changes to the Church will last?
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"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," Francis says. "Ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all." In general, he seems to suggest he wants the church to come off as less judgmental and more pastoral, though without becoming morally "lax."
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