Pope Francis came under fire last week for naming an abortion advocate to the Pontifical Academy for Life, an institution dedicated to defending the right to life of all human beings, born and unborn.
An official statement stating its parochial school students will have to conform to the gender with which they’re born or leave school has put Omaha’s Roman Catholic archdiocese squarely in the middle of a raging national debate over gender, identity and faith.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, returning abortion rights to voters, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the decision “horrific,” adding, “It shows how much standing up and fighting for rights matters every day.”
Pope Francis implicitly criticized President Joe Biden this week for holding a position on abortion that contradicts church teaching and orthodox Christian theology.