Video: Fr. Fessio and Mark Brumley discuss the election of Pope Francis

"I am very optimistic for the life of the Church"

Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, talks with Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, founder and editor of Ignatius Press, about the election of Pope Francis, the first Latin American–and the first Jesuit–to be made pope:


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