Pope Francis is not coming to the U.S. to damn Americans for our wealth or our love of SUVs. He will arrive not as a critic but as a missionary, one who will affirm what is best in the US before he challenges our choices. And he is likely to disarm and even charm those of us who, believing the pundits, are braced for harsh words from the Holy Father.
That was the message of a talk on the September visit of Pope Francis by the British journalist Austen Ivereigh, delivered in Chicago last week.
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