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Thread #158223   Message #3739856
Posted By: DMcG
26-Sep-15 - 07:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
Excellent, Guest!

Some of those topics may well take an inordinate of time to revisit, Steve, I agree. Many may depend upon new cardinals appointed during this papacy, rather than on Francis directly. But the area is not immovable as a recent announcement of changes to divorce procedures indicates (link and there is a conference on some of these topics next month. No-one should anticipate huge changes, I would say, but I'd be surprised if nothing at all happened.

Some may consider the divorce changes tiny and a few decades too late. For the former, I'd say it is something that is terribly difficult for an outsider to understand but is huge for some of those going through it. As for the second, I'd agree but it is still early in this papacy.