Charles Collins of Crux hits the nail on the head. This is the Achilles heel of Pope Francis. Collins highlights things Pope Francis recently said in a rambling interview. He could have said things in a more coherent way, but as always, with his off-the-cuff ramblings, it is incoherent.
What the Holy Father says, though, says a lot about why one never hears him talking about sexual morality. He thinks too much has been said about it in past; it preoccupies people with morality below the belt and not other issues of morality that should be more emphasized as these, according to the Holy Father, are more hurtful and immoral.
That thinking, in a nutshell, is part and parcel of his backward 1960's papacy. He fails to recognized that in all issues concerning the Catholic Faith and Morals of the Church, as well as canon law, it isn't either/or but both/and.
When one issue of morality is de-emphasized in favor of another, both are de-emphasized and people are given one more reason to elevate situational ethics to a dogma.
The other danger implicit in Collins article below, also shows why the sex abuse scandal and tragedy exacerbated in the 1970's, with 1974 being its peak, according to the John Jay Study, is because of the thinking of bishops throughout the world inspired by the 1960's "new morality" of the Church that wanted to de-emphasize sex and sexual sins and elevate social sins to a new puritanical level of culpability and guilt.
Pope Francis is the best example of why 1974 was a year of disaster for the priesthood and the Church where innocent victims were made to suffer because of sex abuse mortal sins and crimes enabled by bishops and their neglect and/or ambivalence of below the belt crimes and mortal sins.
Press title for Collins' stunning appraisal from Crux:
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