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Pope Francis blasts US Catholics for ‘reactionary’ views

By Jeremiah Poff
Published August 28, 2023 5:37pm ET
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Pope Francis blasts US Catholics for ‘reactionary’ views
Pope Francis criticized the state of the Catholic Church in the United States, calling it “reactionary” in recent comments during a closed-door meeting with members of the Jesuit religious order in Portugal. The pontiff singled out the U.S. Catholic Church for what he said was a “reactionary attitude” that had wedded itself to political ideology […]


Pope Francis criticized the state of the Catholic Church in the United States, calling it “reactionary” in recent comments during a closed-door meeting with members of the Jesuit religious order in Portugal.

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