She takes on questions that annoy some Sunday school teachers: Is Jesus the only way ... she recounts how some Christians depict her as an outcast pastor. She calls them the true believers.

Jesus embraces “those who are outcast, ‘untouchable’,” the pope said. “With a compassion that literally causes him to tremble in his depths, he reveals the merciful heart of God.” ...

His public stripping means that Jesus is no longer anything at all, he is simply an outcast, despised by all alike. The moment of the stripping reminds us of the expulsion from Paradise ...