Recently I was invited on the Ben Shapiro show to discuss Pope Francis and Catholic teaching on man's goodness.

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Second when it comes to the interview one thing I didn't mention was that I wish Pope Francis had not said we are fundamentally good.

What gives you hope?

Everything.

One of it. You see tragedies. But you also see so many beautiful things.

You see heroic mothers. Heroic men, we are all fundamentally good.

Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.

Even though I don't know if that's what he said because other parts of the interview

mistranslate what he says, like how Pope Francis said same-sex unions went against

natural law, but that was mistranslated.

Saying humans are fundamentally good can lead to the false idea that sin is incidental to humanity.

You can say human beings are good because they're made in God's image even though that image is

corrupted by sin. You can also say human beings are evil because we have a nature that tends

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