You will look long, hard, and futilely to find in His Holiness any serious analysis
of the Pope's
ground - breaking nuptial theology
of the human body, or his emerging feminism, or his intense ecumenical outreach to Orthodoxy and the Reformation churches, or his commitment to a theological dialogue with Judaism unprecedented in nearly two thousand years, or his refocusing
of Catholic social doctrine, or his passionate interest in the universality
of sanctity in the Church, or his dialogue with atheist and
agnostic philosophers and scientists, or his commitment to the «method
of persuasion» in a revitalized Catholic evangelism, or his millennial sensibility.
I have no interest in misrepresenting myself, but when given the choice between «Jewish» (with the added option
of «not important to me,» «somewhat important to me,» and «very important to me») and «
Agnostic, very important to me,» I had to go with Jewish, because the other one just doesn't communicate anything close to, «I don't personally care what religion you are since I think this God stuff is possibly not a thing, but due to cultural complications and common
ground preferences, I will almost certainly not date you unless you are Jewish.»