Northern Reflections: The Not So Comfortable Pews

                                                         http://mic.com In the latest edition of The New York Review of Books, Gary Wills writes that Pope Francis is making the billionaires — particularly Catholic billionaires — quake. On the eve of his encyclical on climate change, they are mounting what they hope will be a pre-emptive strike: Now,

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Did he really say that?

How does he get this stuff out of his mouth? Pope Francis, I mean. In a recent audience in St. Peter’s Square, he declared that couples who choose not to have children are “selfish.” He went on to pontificate that, “A society with a greedy generation, that doesn’t want to

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