National Catholic Reporter is a leftist site that twists and misreports, for their leftist agenda, anything and everything from Francis to try and make him “their pope”. I would never use one word from these pro-abortion, Cafeteria-Catholic types. When you cite anything from their website you are promoting their site.
Anyway, you apparently missed the point. The Paulist Center, where John Kerry worships and over which Cardinal O'Malley presides, is using the "Francis effect" to promote their "cafeteria catholicism". And Cardinal O'Malley (Pope Francis' close advisor) apparently approves. Don't expect to read this story in Cardinal O'Malley's diocesan paper, the Pilot. There you will only find fawning, puff-ball pieces (along with the requisite reference to "xenophobes").