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A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading traditional thinkers considers Pope Francis' attempts to improve the chapel he governs. Delivered Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Pope Francis' stewardship of the chapel, while perceived as a surprising rvelation by many, has provoked department throughout the world. "If the conclave were to be kept today," one Roman source informed The New Yorker, "Francis would be lucky to get 10 votes." In To Change the Cathedral, Douthat explains why this issue Francis has opened up - over communion for the divorced and the remarried - is so dangerous: how it slices to the center of the bigger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual trend and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the chapel from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and ethnical lines. Douthat argues that the Francis age is a crucial experiment for all of American civilization, which is facing resurgent external enemies (from ISIS to Putin) even while it struggles with its own interior divisions, its decadence, and self-doubt. Whether Francis or his critics are right won't just determine whether he eventually ends up as a hero or a tragic physique for Catholics. It'll determine whether he's a hero or a gambler who's betraying both his chapel and his civilization in to the hands of its enemies.
