TPM Reader JJ continues our series on Pope Francis …

I’ve enjoyed your pieces on Pope Francis.

As someone blessed—or cursed—by four years of Jesuit high school education (Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose, CA) and whose father enjoyed the same (St. Ignatius in San Francisco), I would offer that it’s not possible to understand Francis without understanding the Jesuits.

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Sarah Palin is apparently not a big reader.

Ed Kilgore: “This year there are indeed tidings of great joy — or at least intimations of change — that call into question the usual identification of American Christianity with monolithic and triumphant Christian right.”