Anthea Butler is a professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is 'White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.'
Listening to Pope Francis' television interview with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell was a refreshing relief from the retro and reductive Harrison Butker commencement address at Benedictine College, where Butker suggested that women were at their best as mothers and that there was much disorder in the church. Butker should run the hourlong discussion on a loop at home and study it. He might learn a few things about what Catholic teaching really is.
That cannot be done, because that is not the sacrament. I cannot. The Lord made it that way. But to bless each person, yes. The blessing is for everyone. For everyone. To bless a homosexual-type union, however, goes against the given right, against the law of the church. But to bless each person, why not? The blessing is for all.” This clarification will be a comfort to some and a sadness to others.
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