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William D. Lindsey

A Prediction for 2014: Increasing Attempts to Undercut Pope Francis’s Socioeconomic Teaching by Dividing His Supporters Over Gay and Women’s Issues

The mainstream media love to play the centrist (which is to say, right-wing-in-disguise) game of pretending that Catholic teaching about doctrinal or moral issues cannot be revised and never has been changed. History notwithstanding: history and all it demonstrates to us about how, in fact, Catholic teaching has been changed in the past, and repeatedly so, notwithstanding . . . .

And so a constant theme in the mainstream media since Pope Francis came on the scene has been the theme, “He can’t possibly change Catholic teaching about xyz (usually, this conversation is about homosexuality, women’s ordination, sexual ethics including contraception, and abortion). He’s a loyal son of the church.”

I like how James Carroll pulls the rug out from under that…