A graphic look at the 'Ground Zero' Mosque controversy, courtesy of Mark A. Schmidt:
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Although overtly campaigning to be pope is discouraged and would be counterproductive, the cardinals do a lot of politicking in private prior to the conclave.
Pope Francis’ final moments were peaceful, and he managed to give one last farewell to his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, before slipping into a coma early April 21, Vatican News reported.
All of Pope Francis' gestures, meetings and desires for encounter were themselves a form of “teaching.” And L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and their families have told me repeatedly what a difference this change in approach has meant.
Pope Francis was a great lover of literature: He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and more, and he also encouraged his flock to read broadly and often.
We saw a few thousand Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11/2001, and very few (if any) of them were Al-Qaeda...maybe other terrorist Islamist groups such as Fatah and Hamas, but not Al-Qaeda.