[Open Mind, Faithful Heart] is a call to faithfulness and a warning against the temptations that every Christian feels at one point or another: tiredness, jadedness, settling into a comfortable life, clinging to power. There is not, however, a different message for each group, but one and the same for all. The call is to joy, but to a deep joy that is rooted in the cost of discipleship.

“Pope Francis leads the reader into demanding propositions, and yet he manages to make them sound completely attainable.”