First Impressions of Francis | National Catholic Reporter

First Impressions of Francis | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: I still suspect he will continue in "Easternizing" the Church more, giving power to local patriarchs and emptying the Curia of its importance.  Now that would be change.  While he took the party line on Same Sex Marriage in Argentina, he is now free to examine it the same way that Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter examined abortion in America.  If you compare gay marriage to marriage after menopause, many of the standard Catholic objections go away.  My wife and I married each other.  Our priests (we had two - as one was a family member) were only witnessing for the Church and government.