Richard John Neuhaus on Bergoglio

“Known as an incisive thinker and intensely holy man living a devout life, it is held against him that he is a Jesuit, although he has suffered the slings and arrows of Jesuits of a more ‘progressive’ bent.”

-Richard John Neuhaus, Catholic Matters , 2007

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