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

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

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

On Monday, March 15, the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a dubium,

which is a response to a question.

In this case, it was on the question of bishops or priests blessing same-sex unions.

And so the CDF, which was, the document was also signed off by Pope Francis, said that

no, not only does the church not do this, it cannot do this.

And so they released an entire explanation related to this.

And some of it's been covered in even a mainstream media outlets, Washington Post, C&M,

much to the chagrin of people outside of the church.

And frankly, some people inside of the church who have probably been hoping that Pope Francis

will make a radical change to teaching, the church is teaching homosexuality, or at least

if not a radical change, I think many of them are hoping that the Pope would usher in something

that would, that a way to get the camel's nose under the tent.

So I think most people, except for the far radical left, did not think that Pope Francis

was just going to single-handedly with a stroke of a pen change the church's teachings

on the morality of saying sex behavior.

I think what they were hoping to do is part of their long game to try to get this behavior

accepted in the church.

And by the way, it's very apropos that we're talking about this because I just did that

whole series on Matthew Vines.

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