argentina, the poverty, the economic crisis, that can not only speak our language but can get our ladnguage, is one of us. i think you ll see him active on issues like immigration. you re going to see that the archbishops will be more active in that even though they have been active already. and like chris, i do hope to see more participation by women in the church. i would like to see more respect, more equality for the nuns. chris wife, i, kathleen, we re all sacred heart girls, and i it tell you, this church could use a much more present and vocal nunhood in the running of the church and the other thing that s very important is, you know, here in the united states, sometimes we get real happy when somebody comes in that s from outside of washington. for me, it gives me real hope to have somebody come in from outside the vatican because there are real problems in the vatican, and it may take an outsider. a no-nonsense humble outsider focused on the people to renew the hope and enthu
abortion or even contraception. how does he resolve that tension? i m not sure you can resolve it when it s a matter of principal. all those matters weren t around 50 years ago. what has happened to our culture that suddenly these become cultural imperatives? in history, when you take a look at societies that come and go, when the chips are down, people usually go with their society, usually, not always, and those that don t are often the minoertd. we want to create a security that isn t quite as odds with the gospel of jesus christ as it seems ours has become, so the phenomenon you re talking about is gnaw new, again, however, the church is universal, so we have to stay with the entire church, and we have to say with categories the aren t cultural. conservative and cultural are what you re using. our categories are what is true and what is false and what is the evidence for that. i have to ask you in closing, if you could describe the sense of spiritual renewal you feel
every catholic who goes to church thinks like that, and they don t like talking about this, maybe i shouldn t have now, but they think, what side are they on? i don t think you should feel any catholic guilt about talking about this. we must air this out and this pope must understand and he does that it s part of what he has to do. i can tell you, i m a catholic who has grown very distanced from the church and it has been over this sexual scandal. i can t get over the coverup. i can t get over putting the institution above the people. this is something that i hope he brings me back, and i think there s a lot of american catholics who feel the same way i do. we want that hope. we want the hope from the new pope, and hope that he brings it back. chaired that catholic review board, and i think we catholics have a tendency to wait to be told as opposed to participate in the debate. and when i was asked to chair the board, i didn t choose my board. we had a wonderful group of active cat
population because even though many priests in the united states have learned spanish to take care of a growing number of spanish speaking parishioners in the first generation, at least, it s never quite the same to know the language as it is to know the culture. he comes from the culture with the language, and that will be a great source of encouragement for all of us, but especially for then. beyond that, in the universal church, it means we are global, truly, in fact as well as in intentionality, and so the crossing of the water to the americas is a very historic moment, isn t it. how he speaks about america is interesting as well. i can remember being a young reporter in the 90s, covering pope john paul ii s visit to denver with a youth group from mexico and seeing what a beloved figure he was, there with president clinton, of course, and even more beloved that his successor, pope benedict. what in your judgment, can this pope, could he, should he do to
has seen what is going on in argentina, the poverty, the economic crisis, that can not only speak our language but can get our ladnguage, is one of us. i think you ll see him active on issues like immigration. you re going to see that the archbishops will be more active in that even though they have been active already. and like chris, i do hope to see more participation by women in the church. i would like to see more respect, more equality for the nuns. chris wife, i, kathleen, we re all sacred heart girls, and i it tell you, this church could use a much more present and vocal nunhood in the running of the church and the other thing that s very important is, you know, here in the united states, sometimes we get real happy when somebody comes in that s from outside of washington. for me, it gives me real hope to have somebody come in from outside the vatican because there are real problems in the vatican, and it may take an outsider. a no-nonsense humble outsider