Pope Francis was was no fan of President Trump — or other conservative world leaders, a position that divided many conservative Catholics both in the US and around the globe.
Francis’s outspoken views on refugees and illegal migrants, as well as LGBTQ people in the church and women potentially serving as ordained deacons could spark a retrenchment by the next pontiff.
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Frank Pavone, for years a parish priest in Staten Island who worked to end abortion as the head of Priests for Life, was dismissed from the clergy by Francis. He said in an interview the late pope is “going to be known as a failed pope, a pope of confusion.”
Pavone said Francis’s great failure was not being a “center of unity” within the church. Instead, the ex-priest slammed the late pontiff’s moves on gay Catholics.
But, Pavone said, the damage of those liberal moves was done, evidenced by five cardinals sending a “Dubia,” or letter requesting official clarification of the Vatican’s actions.
“When you have Cardinals asking the Pope to clarify whether there are moral absolutes, that’s not because there’s any question that there are moral absolutes,” he told The Post. “That’s because they’re challenging him to do his job and to confirm this with the people who might be confused about that in the world, and he refused to answer their question.”