“Is the Pope a Catholic?” is old and well-used rhetorical repartee. It doesn’t require and answer. Or it didn’t until recently.
After Pope’s Francis recent remarks about inter-religious dialogue in Singapore, theologians and laity are questioning whether what he said was authentically Catholic.
As so often, when the Pope shoots from the hip, he causes either excitement or chaos depending on how Catholic or secular the listener is.
His remarks at Singapore were so at odds with what might be expected from a pope that they have achieved significant global publicity – again.
