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[Catholic Caucus] Towards a Female Pontiff of an Emasculated ChurchOf course, women priests and popes are part of a bigger package containing all sorts of theological surprises...To make the Church less masculine: this is the task that Pope Francis has given the International Theological Commission. Or at least, that is the official translation of the Italian word Francis used, smaschilizzare, which the English-language media rightly translated as "demasculinize", i.e. "emasculate, castrate". "Rendere meno maschile," which Francis did not say, would translate literally as "to make less masculine."But how can anyone, much less a pope, contemplate demasculinizing a Church that was...

I saw this ad on Twitter and was a little taken aback, so I naturally shared it with my family. That includes my dad. My dad’s an incredible person in many ways. He’s smart, funny, and kind. He’s a man’s man. He wrestled and was all-conference in football in high school. He won a college scholarship to play football, but messed up both his knees senior year, so he went to tech school instead and learned to run heavy equipment. That’s what he was doing when I was born - running dragline, digging ditches, building roads. Union work. He decided...