November 11, 2022 Facebook Twitter Email Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in their second private audience. Pope Francis’s Tacit Support For Gay Marriage Subverts Scripture To Please The World Given the contrast between Francis’s rhetoric and behavior, the Catholic Church risks jettisoning centuries of teaching for post-modernist fashion... ... Though Francis defends traditional marriage in words, his actions reveal an apathetic tolerance for LGBT advocacy and behavior. That apathy extends to his appointments. One is Cardinal Vincenzo Paglia, who, as I noted in these pages in September , has a concerning tolerance for abortion. Francis named him in 2016 to be president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which Pope John Paul II founded to combat abortion. But before moving to the Vatican, Paglia showed a penchant for homosexuality... ... From 2012-2016, Paglia was president of the Pontifical Council for the Family. In that role, he released a sex-educa...