READ HERE: Pope Francis has once again sparked immense controversy with his widely perceived liberalizing policies and ambiguity related to hotly contested moral issues, this time angering conservative Catholics by appearing to soften the Vatican’s longtime ban on blessing gay couples, as a Wall Street Journal headline revealed this week.

The shift has unleashed a significant degree of confusion within the Roman Catholic world, with some leading conservative clerics and pundits accusing Francis of paving the way for eventual full ‘recognition’ of same-sex unions.