To those more familiar with Pope Francis from headlines and Fr. James Martin clips, the Catholic Church’s outright condemnation of surrogacy, euthanasia, and gender theory as grave violations of human dignity may come as a surprise. But it shouldn’t. Pope Francis was in the news again last week with the Vatican’s release of “Dignitas Infinita,”...
Pope Francis made headlines around the world last week when he seemed to endorse civil unions for same-sex couples, leading many Hillsdale Catholics to question his words and intentions. “Catholics may be rightly annoyed by the confusion caused by Pope Francis’s recent remarks, but they should not be worried,” Nathan Schlueter, who teaches courses on...
As the Francis papacy wanes, it has become fashionable — especially among well-to-do Catholics — to express discontent at even the thought of the current pope futzing around in the Vatican. What began in 2013 as a revolution of love within the Roman Catholic Church (dubbed by the media as “The Francis Effect”) has now...