Pope Francis' extensive interview with a Jesuit journal has made headlines for his striking comments about the need for the Catholic Church to stop dwelling on issues like abortion and gayness. But contained within it was also a mention of his love of the music of Mozart — plus a slew of other cultural references. "I don’t recall reading an interview with a pope with so many different references to culture," said Matthew Bunson, authority of a biography of Francis. Francis is not nearly so private about his predilections as his predecessor Benedict was, Bunson added. Where Benedict was a remote academic, Francis is a good-humored proselytizer, "intensely pastoral," a Jesuit through and through. He is also, according to NBC News, a pope for the Facebook generation — making known his loves of the Federico Fellini classic La Strada and Dostoyevsky, as well as his hobbies of phoning parishioners who write to him, posing for teens' selfies and tooling around the Vatican in his 1984 Renault.
