The Church teaches that access to baptism must be linked to a conversion process which takes the form of a decision to change one's life, to adopt the Christian way.
The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century boasts a foreword by Pope Francis and received a nihil obstat and imprimatur from Cardinal Blase Cupich’s Archdiocese of Chicago despite contradicting Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
Newark Cardinal Tobin has been a key figure in the organizing of the Synod on Synodality, being part of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops since 2018.
‘When you promote homosexuality, Holy Father, you hurt me and my parish. When you do not speak clearly, you make my priestly task very difficult,’ Father Joseph Illo wrote.
Instead of truth presented with Christ's compassion, Pope Francis presents human compassion tinged with ambiguity, a formula which obscures the truth – which is never ambiguous – and a clear path forward out of the world and to Christ.
Fr. Timothy Radcliffe also highlighted homosexuals and ‘people in polygamous marriages,’ who he said ‘long for a renewed Church in which they will feel fully at home’ and ‘affirmed.’