AUDIO: Mary Rice Hasson on Pope Francis’ Call to Care for the Elderly

Weigel reflects on Pope Francis’ last 10 years; the good, the bad, and the ugly.

EPPC Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow Mary Rice Hasson and Fellow Rachel N. Morrison met with federal government officials to discuss concerns over a proposal by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) to remove the current exclusion for “gender alterations” from its medical benefits package. The scholars objected to the VA’s characterization that such care is “medically necessary” and that it is “consistent with medical industry standards.”

A meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power.

That there is opposition to Pope Francis in the Church is as obvious, even as it is difficult to define just what constitutes opposition