Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?

Upon waking at Hotel Peter and Paul, on the grounds of a refurbished Catholic church ... little something extra”), which was opened last year, in Central City, by Kaitlin Guerin, a New Orleans ...

So read the headline of a New York Times report ... always on promoting mercy over punishing sin. But little had changed in terms of formal church teachings. Francis’s promise to reconsider ...