THE short stretch of time that Pope Francis was here was expectedly like a freeze frame. While we knew of the larger more important issues that affect us, it was difficult not to get caught up in Francis Fever.

It didn’t matter that he is the last person to want to be treated like a rock star. For that stretch of five days, he could only be exactly that. To me, lapsed Catholic as I am, the fascination had everything to do with the things Pope Francis said and his kind of thinking about the world. It’s the kind that we rarely witness from our own Church.

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