It's hard to measure how stunning this is to someone-like me-who grew up in the reactionary American Catholic Church of the 1950s and early 1960s. You were taught not even to set foot in a Protestant church on the pain of mortal sin. Hell, it was even considered weird to enter other Catholic churches outside your own parish, let alone those funky Eastern Orthodox churches where they used pita bread for Communion. I was not allowed to join the best Boy Scout troop in my town because it was sponsored by the local Congregational church.
Source: Charles P. Pierce - Esquire, "Pope Francis Just Did What the Church Should Have Done Decades Ago", November 1, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-just-did-church-153416395.html
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