The Catholic Church announced this week Pope Francis has excommunicated the Apostle Paul over the latter's outdated views on women, families, and social issues.
Elder Patrick Kearon doesn’t use a middle initial, which makes him the first Latter-day Saint apostle in 125 years to make that choice. Elder Ulisses Soares joined the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 2018, and he doesn’t use an initial. The difference is that Elder Soares doesn’t have a middle name.
Sometimes we in the church have lost our way. We have taken this radical, incredible, liberating news of God’s love and twisted it, turned it, into its opposite.