It's Monday, November 13, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

There are huge changes underway in the Catholic Church and they should be of interest to us all.

And over the course of the last several weeks there's just been a succession of

headlines and you can just tell from those headlines that we're talking here about

major change. We're going to be looking at this pattern and why evangelical

Protestant should be paying attention here.

We're going to be looking at the big changes in our cultural terrain,

and we're going to understand that when the Roman Catholic Church begins to send a very different signal on so many of the big moral issues that's going to have a massive

effect on the entire culture. If nothing else it's going to give progressives in the culture

the opportunity to say look the Catholics are getting board, what about the rest of you?

And the historical background to that is so important is that over the course of the last, say, 30 years of the 20th century and into the 21st century, a duo of conservative

popes and a series of very clear Catholic moral statements on sexuality, marriage, the existence of truth,

the dignity of life, these had a massive effect on the culture.

And at least at that point, conservative Protestants and traditionalist Roman Catholics were able to say,

as you look at the Christian tradition, there is unanimity on the tradition that says

that the dignity, the unborn life is to be protected. the union of a man and a woman. Human sexuality was intended to be exercised only within the bonds

and within the boundaries of that marriage.

The gift of children is a good thing to the marital couple.

This was a set of truths that on both sides of the

Tiber so to speak that's the river that runs there in Rome there was a very

clear understanding and as you look at the development of so many of these issues

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