Pope friction

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Pope, his bishops, and some women walk into the Vatican. The National Catholic Reporter’s Joshua McElwee explains what happens next. This episode was produced by Isabel Angell, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	People are leaving the Catholic Church.
0:02.7	It's very old traditions clash with modern life.
0:05.6	It's been plagued by abuse scandals.
0:08.0	It's most accessible emissary of the past decade
0:10.3	was the hot priest from Fleabag.
0:12.4	I love you.
0:14.3	It'll pass.
0:17.6	To address this problem,
0:18.9	it's second most accessible emissary,
0:21.0	Cool Pope, Pope Francis, called a month-long summit
0:24.0	in Rome to talk about how the church moves forward,
0:26.8	modernizes even.
0:28.2	The Catholic Church has held these meetings or synods before,
0:38.3	but this year, for the first time ever,
0:40.0	it wasn't just Catholic clergy voting.
0:42.8	There were laypeople, or in laypeople terms, regular people.
0:46.7	They discussed big things.
0:48.2	Can priests get married?
0:49.3	Can women be priests?
0:50.8	Where does the church stand on LGBTQ people?
0:53.7	The post-synid lowdown, coming up on today, explained.
0:59.2	Explocationi, Hori Yernai, Al-Skultas.
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