Tuesday, December 19, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:37)
Did Pope Francis Really Give Blessing to Same-Sex Couples? The Complicated Disaster of the News Coming Out of the Vatican
- What 'Fiducia supplicans' declares about papal power by The Pillar (Edward Condon)
Part II (09:37 - 16:56)
Progressing the Sexual Revolution By a Wink: The Strategy of Pope Francis to Blur the Lines of “Union” Ceremonies with Weddings
- Vatican Issues Guidelines for Same-Sex Blessings by Wall Street Journal (Francis X. Rocca)
- Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Couples by New York Times (Jason Horowitz)
Part III (16:56 - 20:40)
The Bottom Line of the Roman Catholic Church’s Blessing of Same-Sex Unions
Part IV (20:40 - 26:15)
The Cultural Context and Political Effects: How the Vatican’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples Will Impact Faithful Protestant Christians Across the Globe
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 19, 2023. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.1 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | So did Pope Francis just say that priests in the Roman Catholic Church can give blessings to same-sex |
| 0:19.0 | unions. |
| 0:20.0 | That is what is being reported in headlines all over the world. |
| 0:23.2 | And the bottom line is it's not wrong. |
| 0:25.4 | But it also is a big story, and it's a big story regardless of whether or not one is inside |
| 0:31.1 | or outside the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 0:33.0 | Speaking as a confessional and conservative evangelical Protestant Christian, |
| 0:38.0 | there's a lot of stake here, and we need to take a closer look at it, |
| 0:41.0 | and we need to measure what's going on here particularly not just |
| 0:44.7 | by developments in church history but by biblical authority and the Christian worldview. |
| 0:50.1 | The bottom line is that this is a disaster. |
| 0:53.0 | It's a disaster, I think, on many fronts, |
| 0:55.0 | but in particular, it's a disaster because the impact of this in the larger culture |
| 1:00.0 | is going to be to add momentum to the very forces that are tearing apart gender, tearing |
| 1:05.9 | apart sexuality, tearing apart civilization, tearing apart marriage, tearing apart sexual morality |
| 1:11.9 | and all the rest. We have seen this Pope in particular, Pope Francis, be an agent of suggestion, |
| 1:20.0 | subversion of the Christian order by suggestion. |
| 1:23.6 | But in this case, we've actually gone to an official teaching, |
| 1:26.2 | which is a declaration of church doctrine. |
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