{"id":189488,"date":"2023-10-04T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=189488"},"modified":"2023-10-04T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:44:06","slug":"conservative-catholics-outraged-confused-after-pope-francis-letter-on-blessing-same-sex-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=189488","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Catholics Outraged, Confused After Pope Francis Letter On &#8216;Blessing&#8217; Same-Sex Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/conservative-catholics-outraged-confused-pope-francis-opens-door-recognizing-same-sex\">READ HERE<\/a>:<\/strong> 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\u00a0<strong>appearing to<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>soften the Vatican&#8217;s longtime ban on blessing gay couples<\/strong>, as a\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0headline revealed this week.<\/h3>\n<p>The shift has unleashed a significant degree of confusion within the Roman Catholic world, with some leading conservative clerics and pundits<strong>\u00a0accusing Francis of paving the way for eventual full\u00a0&#8216;recognition&#8217; of same-sex unions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}