The man who could help prevent a holy war

By Garry Wills March 6 

Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian. His book “The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis” is being published this month.
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The man who could help prevent a holy war

Discussions ricochet around Pope Francis’s ability to reconcile the Catholic Church’s bureaucracy, theology and practitioners. But for a man of Francis’s scope and skill, this is too narrow an assignment. His real task, for which he is ideally situated, is to prevent the world’s descent into religious war.