Francis bids farewell, warns against 'narrow' faith

c. 2015 Religion News Service

PHILADELPHIA (RNS) Pope Francis ended his historic, and taxing, trip to the U.S. on Sunday (September 27) after again renewing his call to American Catholics—and, by extension, the entire church—to move beyond a “narrow” vision of Catholicism that he denounced as “a perversion of faith.”

Speaking to close to a million people jamming the main thoroughfare of the city for the closing mass, Francis began his homily by citing the Scripture stories in which followers of Moses, and later Jesus, complain that others are prophesying and casting out demons without permission.