Ask a Jesuit a question, Fr Ricardo Da Silva says, and you’ll be met with another question. Fr Da Silva is an associate editor with America – The Jesuit Review — and also hosts a podcast called ‘Preach’ while producing another ‘Inside the Vatican’. He is a Jesuit priest and when discussing many of the aspects of Pope Francis’s papacy, he stresses the importance of his Jesuit background.  The questioning attitude, the refusal to be pigeonholed and the embrace of synodality can be seen as coming from this background. They led to frustrations with Pope Francis from both wings of…

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