Last week, the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University hosted The Francis Factor at Five Years: Reflection and Dialogue. The event featured a talk by Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the editor in chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, followed by a panel of Greg Erlandson, the director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service; Sr. Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande; and Kirsten Powers, CNN political analyst and co-host of the new faith and politics podcast @thefaithangle.

Here are some highlights of the event:

“Do not consider anyone or anything lost. This is the meaning of mercy in politics.” –@antoniospadaro #FrancisFactor pic.twitter.com/Dik7ktKLGA

— Georgetown CST (@GUcstpubliclife) February 13, 2018

Fr. @antoniospadaro at @GUcstpubliclife: Pope Francis reminds us that our language and communication must be underscored by mercy. “Mercy means that no one is definitely lost.” Mercy isn’t abstract concept but it’s the action of God within individuals and in the world.

— Jordan Denari Duffner (@jordandenari) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro speaking @GUcstpubliclife: Faithful Christians should not opt for seeing the Church as a counter-society..but one that is in dialogue in the world…Any other option does not work. #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro: Pope Francis is light years away from a theory of a clash of civilizations #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro speaking @GUcstpubliclife talking about significance of apostolic trips: “He wants to touch the injured lands one by one.” #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

Friend and advisor of Pope Francis, Fr. @antoniospadaro, begins his speech at @Georgetown by stating that Pope Francis strongly rejects the notion of a ‘clash of civilizations’ and offers a counternarrative against fear. @GUcstpubliclife pic.twitter.com/jt4sUeLNW3

— Jordan Denari Duffner (@jordandenari) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro speaking @GUcstpubliclife: Peace, for Bergoglio, means acting on behalf of the outcast and the weak #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

“Pope Francis has two main global priorities: peace among nations and social inclusion of the poor.”—@antoniospadaro #FrancisFactor

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 13, 2018

“Francis is a pope who takes up courageous decisions, some times risky ones” @antoniospadaro #FrancisFactor

— Georgetown CST (@GUcstpubliclife) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro: Pope Francis is not a pacifist. Conflict cannot be entirely eliminated from interpersonal or international relations. #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro: Pope Francis does not support a “peace” that is at the cost of the poor. #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 13, 2018

“Francis’s papacy chooses ‘ad extra’ (to the outside) and ‘ad gente’ (to the people) as the mission of his ‘ad intra’ (to the inside of the Church) governance and reform. He wants a global Rome”—@antoniospadaro #FrancisFactor

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 13, 2018

.@antoniospadaro speaking @GUcstpubliclife: Under Francis, the curia functions as an antenna which is able to send and receive messages from the Church and from the world #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

Pope Francis “takes up courageous positions, sometimes risky ones.” –@antoniospadaro at @GUcstpubliclife #FrancisFactor

— Jordan Denari Duffner (@jordandenari) February 13, 2018

. @antoniospadaro : 2 great social themes of Pope Francis: peace, and inclusion of the poor. Francis does not want a false peace that ignores injustice vs the poor #francisfactor @GUcstpubliclife

— Kim Daniels (@KDaniels8) February 13, 2018

.@nspimentel: We need to be out making our community better for others and getting rid of exclusion, not just sitting in meetings #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 13, 2018

.@GregErlandson speaking at @GUcstpubliclife: During conclave, Bergoglio was calling for a leader who was not caught up in internal Church matters but focused on what was happening outside of it #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

“From the beginning, Pope Francis reminded me of Jesus Christ.”—@KirstenPowers #FrancisFactor

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 13, 2018

“They were looking for someone who was not caught up in internal church concerns and matters, but was looking to push the church out to the peripheries and I think the cardinals found this vision in Francis” @GregErlandson #FrancisFactor

— Georgetown CST (@GUcstpubliclife) February 13, 2018

.@KirstenPowers: What immediately struck me about Francis was his humility, that he wasn’t ostentatious #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 13, 2018

.@GregErlandson speaking at @GUcstpubliclife: Francis has a way, through his words and his actions, of immediately being understood and capturing people’s imagination #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 13, 2018

.@GregErlandson speaking at @GUcstpubliclife on sex abuse crisis re: Barros: Bringing in @BishopScicluna was a good move, but it will not be enough…the Pope who is the master of gestures is going to have to find a way personally to address this situation. #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 14, 2018

“Pope Francis made the Church newly relevant in the secular world.”—@KirstenPowers #FrancisFactor

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 14, 2018

.@nspimentel We are one family, we are one community. We must find what unites us.

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 14, 2018

“We have to be conscious of the fact that we’re working with people, with children who have families” @nspimentel on breaking down walls #FrancisFactor

— Georgetown CST (@GUcstpubliclife) February 14, 2018

.@kirstenpowers speaking at @GUcstpubliclife: If you’re truly Catholic, you’re not going to be an ideologue. The Catholic Church just doesn’t line up with either party. #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 14, 2018

.@KirstenPowers: the Catholic Church does not line up with either party. It just doesn’t. #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 14, 2018

.@KirstenPowers lays down a hard truth. No matter how many statements the @USCCB releases, Nancy Pelosi won’t change her opinion on abortion & Paul Ryan won’t change his worldview on welfare programs. The power of Pope Francis’s witness is limited by partisanship. #FrancisFactor

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 14, 2018

“Pope Francis is speaking consistent with church teaching. It’s just a question of whether, in our climate, people want to hear it” @KirstenPowers #FrancisFactor

— Georgetown CST (@GUcstpubliclife) February 14, 2018

.@GregErlandson speaking at @GUcstpubliclife addresses the resistance to Francis: Catholics should be very afraid of the language of schism #FrancisFactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 14, 2018

.@GregErlandson: some conservative critics of the pope fear “an agenda behind the agenda,” such as a potential watering down of Humanae Vitae in the future #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 14, 2018

.@KirstenPowers: some conservative Catholics have confused politics and theology; not a coincidence that this is happening in US #francisfactor

— Kim Daniels (@KDaniels8) February 14, 2018

.@kirstenpowers speaking @GUcstpubliclife addressing clerical sex abuse: It hangs over Francis’ legacy and it really risks wiping everything out. If you have a choice, the deference should go to the victims. #francisfactor

— Christopher White (@cwwhite212) February 14, 2018

.@KirstenPowers: after all this time, no excuse for mistakes on the abuse crisis
John Carr: need more parents in the room when decisions are made #francisfactor

— Kim Daniels (@KDaniels8) February 14, 2018

.@GregErlandson: Year of Mercy was a tremendous gift to the Church. Cites @bpdflores: we’re a family that sometimes forgets how to love each other. Wish we had another year of mercy #francisfactor

— Kim Daniels (@KDaniels8) February 14, 2018

.@KirstenPowers concludes by talking about how important Francis’ messages on consumerism, materialism, and individualism are, particularly for those of us who are Americans #FrancisFactor

— (((Robert Christian))) (@RGC3) February 14, 2018