The pontiff's softening of church rhetoric on issues like same-sex relationships has inflamed tensions within Catholicism.
Pope Francis is facing growing dissent among members of the Catholic Church over recent decisions that opponents portray as contrary to traditional church doctrine.The most controversial has been the publication of a document in December by a Vatican bishop, with the pope's approval, mooting the 'possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples.
'Darrell Bock, a senior research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, told Newsweek that Francis 'represents a lean of the Catholic Church that tends to be more liberal and less traditional, and so some of the pushback is coming from the more traditional-oriented Catholics.'Dillon said that the pope wanted to 'find a way forward that can be inclusive rather than condemnatory.
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