The new commission just announced by Pope Francis will be made up of seven men and six women.
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As a Catholic and Grand Knight of St. Anastasia’s Knights of Columbus, I would also like to applaud Pope Francis for his visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
Pope Francis blasted the idea of teaching young children about gender theory in school, saying that it is “terrible” while more Americans accept the idea of changing one’s gender as morally alright.
During a talk with Polish bishops on Tuesday, the pope referred to trans people as an example of “annihilation of man as image of God”.
“Catholic News Service reports that Francis questioned whether the early female deacons were ordained and suggested that their primary role was assisting with baptizing other women. Because the books come from those people and institutions who give money”, he said.
While meeting privately last week with bishops from Poland, Pope Francis lamented that children are being taught gender can be a choice.
He added that the move was part of what he described as “ideological colonizing”, backed by very “influential countries”, which he also did not identify. Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBT Catholic organization Dignity condemned the pope’s “dangerous ignorance” and said, “It’s very troubling that the pope would say this”.
“There are parishes with parish secretaries who seem to be “disciples of Satan” and scare people; parishes with closed doors”, he said.
Meanwhile, an online petition started by Family Research Council against the Obama administration’s “overreach in bullying parents and local school districts” to allow students to use restrooms and other facilities as per their gender identity and not their biological sex has gained more than 106,000 signatures.
Pope Francis on Thursday embarks on a short pilgrimage to mark the 8th centenary of the Pardon of Assisi, a feast which commemorates the establishment of a plenary indulgence for all who pass through the chapel where the Franciscan order was founded.
“Pope Francis is one of the -closest allies Jews have today in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry and hatred”, Lauder said.
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“There is no scriptural reason for women not being ordained and to look at the scriptures itself, Paul’s letters to Romans to see that there were women, to me that’s it. It says it right there”, Schessler said. Austen Ivereigh, a biographer of Francis, who noted that Francis’ remarks do not attack people but an “abstract ideology which doesn’t correspond to that human reality”.
