Eileen McNamara: The internal debates of the Catholic
Church might be fascinating to Catholics, but why are they assumed to be
of compelling interest to everyone else? One could hardly tell from the media’s preoccupation with all things papal that Islam, not Catholicism, is the fastest growing religion in the world.
In the 19 months since Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina
became Pope Francis, an enchanted media has been dispensing a steady
diet of “news” from Vatican City about everything from the pontiff’s preferred footwear to the birthday breakfast he shared with a few homeless men.http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/10/27/catholic-synod-on-family-eileen-mcnamara