Now they're also becoming socially liberal. It's my guess that they are moving left socially because they are terrified of losing their socially liberal funds from Gov't.
The Catholic Church will never be socially liberal. You can’t change the word of God. I am not a fan of Francis but he can no more change the doctrine of the Catholic Church than I can. He can tell his liberal priests to look the other way and not preach certain things and that’s what I am afraid of. That’s been going on with abortion for years. My parish priest never mentions it. He never mentions any social doctrine. Others do though, some don’t. Francis is a liberal Jesuit priest and I don’t a very deep thinker. But this too shall pass. The Church has dealt with other bad popes and he’s no different. The pope’s words on faith and morals are infallible, which means he can make no mistake. In otherwords Benedict and JP2 made no mistake. Popes safeguard the truth, which is based on the Word of God.