In a speech at his weekly general audience, Francis said that “fortitude is a fundamental virtue because it takes the challenge of evil in the world seriously.”
For those who were hoping for something “new” in this document, perhaps this will be disappointing. And yet this wisdom about dignity is ever ancient, ever new.
In a church that values tradition, the idea of “novelty” strikes some people as strange, and a reporter asked the cardinal if people could expect that in another 80 years the teaching in the document would change again.