Crux: As the US Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting in Baltimore today, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American Church.
Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic University last week that Pope Francis wants a “missionary Church” with an open door, not “a self-centered, self-pitying Church immersed in its own suffering.” More here.
