ROME — A broad consensus regards Pope Francis, who today wraps up a five-day trip to Lisbon for World Youth Day, as a revolutionary figure. His ambitious agenda over the last decade has aroused both delight and division, both inside and outside the Catholic Church.
However, the pontiff’s most recent blockbuster media interview – and the preponderance of such interviews is itself part of what makes him such an earthquake – offers a reminder that the real Francis revolution is ad extra, meaning outside the Church.
