Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 15:28)
‘Bewildering Ambiguity’: The Legacy and Lessons of Pope Francis as He Marks Ten Years.

10 Years On, Pope Francis Faces Challenges From the Right and the Left by New York Times (Jason Horowitz)
Ten Years of Pope Francis by First Things (Dan Hitchens)
Women’s Ordination, Transgender Ideology Move Forward at German Synodal Way by National Catholic Register (Jonathan Liedl)

Part II (15:28 - 21:29)
Justice Department Loses Death Penalty Argument in Terrorist Case: Scripture and Human Conscience Cry Out for Justice

Manhattan Bike Path Terrorist Avoids Death Penalty by Wall Street Journal (Corinne Ramey and Sadie Gurman)

Part III (21:29 - 26:41)
President Biden’s New Theological Category: ‘Close to Sinful’ — But the Bible Knows Nothing of the It

Florida anti-trans legislation is ‘close to sinful,’ Biden tells Kal Penn by Washington Post (Victoria Bisset)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
0:07.6	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:11.9	a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	Pope Francis celebrated his 10th anniversary as the pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church
0:18.9	this week, and 10 years is a long time when it comes to the papacy.
0:22.9	The papacy is very old, but most popes serve less than the 10 years that Francis Isnell
0:28.7	served.
0:29.9	Now, when Francis was elected back in 2013, he followed two legendary conservative popes.
0:36.8	First of all, Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI.
0:40.7	And Francis was understood as a different kind of Pope.
0:43.6	First of all, he was the first Pope ever from the part of the world.
0:47.8	He had served as a bishop and cardinal, and that was Argentina.
0:51.8	And by the way, one of the things that is involved in the background of Pope Francis as
0:56.4	Isnell, as you think of that Argentinian history, is to understand that there was a lot going
1:01.2	on in Argentina, and there's a lot of history there, some of which the Vatican really does
1:06.0	not want you to look at too closely.
1:08.1	But after two successive conservative popes, and an age in which the world was moving in
1:13.1	a very liberal direction, the Roman Catholic cardinals chose someone who was understood to
1:18.2	be far more liberal than his predecessors.
1:20.6	And as it has turned out, Pope Francis has been just that.
1:24.4	And on this 10th anniversary, it's worth us considering some of the big issues that
1:28.4	swirl around, not only Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic Church, but by extension,
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