Gerson just called Trump a fascist and MSW endorsed this.  I agree.  Sadly, he is not a hands on fascist and his toadies are more true believer than he is, hence the fortnight of confusion just experienced.

 The Vatican Insider is correct.  The popes from Piux IX to Benedict XVI mostly stressed their assumed authority over our ability to reason, which did not actually prevent error but merely ordered us to ignore it.  They did not succeed.  Birth Control is still not the evil they think it is, rather the need to use it shows the evil of capitalism (which Benedict at least got right).  Interestingly, in condemning relativism they became relativists - operating on authority when reason went the other way.  Francis seems to ignore the use of the term, which some find unnerving, some find illegitimate, some claim as implicit and some (of us) find a relief.

The former pastor of Surfer's Paradise?  Right on braugh!