The Catholic Church is changing – and the gates of reaction shall not prevail against it

Can you be more Catholic than the Pope?

The American arch-reactionary Pat Buchanan clearly thinks so. He has been lambasting Pope Francis for sowing “confusion among the faithful” by refusing to defend “the unchanging truths of Catholicism”.

Indeed, says the US Catholic paleo-conservative, the Pope may be “speaking heresy”, which would imply that Francis is “not a valid pope”.

Yet how does this high-octane indignation square with widespread reports at the end of last week that a liberal Pope had been defeated by doctrinaire traditionalists in his attempts to make the Church more welcoming to gays and divorcees? The fortnight-long Extraordinary Synod on the Family ended with headlines like: “Pope snubbed” and “Liberal Hopes Dashed”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-catholic-church-is-changing--and-the-gates-of-reaction-shall-not-prevail-against-it-9816943.html

Honestly, I've never understood why Pat Buchanan gets to talk ...