Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Francesco, a newly released documentary on the life and ministry of Pope Francis, has

made global headlines because the film contains a scene in which Pope Francis calls for the

passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples.

So begins an article in the Catholic News Agency on the recent controversy this week related

to Pope Francis.

We're going to jump into that controversy today, talk about it, and also talk about how

do we communicate the church's teaching on marriage, so-called same-sex marriage, civil

unions, and a culture that is very, very, very hostile to those teachings.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And when I first heard about this, I actually got a call from a friend.

He called me and he said, Trent, do you know what's going on with Pope Francis?

And I was driving up to Oceanside to film for our Catholic Answers School of Apologetics.

I'm actually filming a new course.

I just finished filming a new course this week called How to Argue Against Abortion.

And so he called me and said, I saw in the news, Pope Francis is saying we need civil unions.

Do you know anything about that?

And I was like, oh goodness, what's going on now?

So I pop on my phone at the traffic light and I'm scrolling through the news feed trying

to get a sense of all this.

And I finally made it up to the studio and then you know, got on my phone and looked at

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