“Why pick on Francis now that he is dead?” That was Gavin Ashenden’s lead-in to his conversation with Peter Kwasniewski about Dominic J. Grigio’s The Disastrous Pontificate, a critical analysis of the Bergoglian era. The two theologians teamed up last month to examine Grigio’s analysis of consequential theological knots left from the reign of Pope Francis. In sum, the reason to keep studying Francis is that he is key to the nature and direction of his successor’s pontificate. These are not academic issues. Continue Reading