(Part three of five)  unless you believe that religious convictions and society's values are, by nature, co-terminus?—Ken Briggs  to pretend that the Church is counter-cultural, to the point of denying responsibility for what the Church is doing to society, makes the institutional church dysfunctional.
Where is the follow-through and why doesn't the pope's deep priority seem to matter to the bishops on anything like a broad, challenging scale.—Ken Briggs  the Church is about worshipping God.  Prioritizing the poor is only a means to that end.  Though significant and important, prioritizing the poor is not the essence of worship.