He was no liberal, but Francis embodied a spirit of international solidarity that is in alarmingly short supply<\/p>\n
Pope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president<\/a>, JD Vance. If that wasn\u2019t a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump\u2019s acolyte and self-styled \u201cChristian nationalist\u201d, appeared to welcome the pope\u2019s death as a sign of \u201cevil\u201d being \u201cdefeated\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, despite a series of clashes with the Trump White House, Francis was no liberal. While refraining from judging homosexuality, he explicitly disapproved of the liberalising synodal path embarked on by the Catholic church in Germany<\/a>, which ruled in 2023 that church employees could not be sacked for entering same-sex relationships or remarrying after divorce. On abortion, euthanasia, women and LGBTQ+ rights, Francis betrayed the high hopes that liberals and progressives had bestowed upon him.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He was no liberal, but Francis embodied a spirit of international solidarity that is in alarmingly short supply Pope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president, JD Vance. If that wasn\u2019t a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump\u2019s acolyte and self-styled \u201cChristian nationalist\u201d, appeared to welcome the pope\u2019s death … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}