Sandra Schneiders in her foreword to @Pontifex's The Gospel of Luke (@OrbisBooks): ""More pointedly than his immediate predecessors, Francis seems to have internalized and perhaps privileges, in a certain way, the Lukan portrait of Jesus." FD of St. Luke

Oct 18, 2021 · 12:45 PM UTC

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In effect, this commentary offers a guide to the "gospel according to Pope Francis"--the emphasis on God's mercy, God's quest for the lost and rejected, tenderness toward the broken, the inversion of status, and a knack for "unsettling the self-satisfied and righteous."
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