A little too late: Clerics’ partners and children

Better late than never must be the response to the news that a website has been established to help the partners and children of Catholic priests. 

It would be easier, too, to celebrate the development had it been a Church initiative rather than one established by lay professionals but later endorsed by the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis is leading an unquiet revolution in how institutional Catholicism is regarded across the world by his determination that responses to poverty and inequality should be seen as Christianity in action, but every now and then we are reminded why a figure as charismatic as Francis is so vital to the future of Catholicism.