It’s weird, he seems to be playing both sides atm. When he compared you to nuclear weapons ( ) he meant that the proliferation of “gender ideology” is an existential threat. It’s the same logic that a lot of TERFs use, part of the gender critical movement’s mythology. But he seems to believe that some halfway point between what trans people are asking for and the status quo is the correct position and he’s just kind of slowly moving towards it?

I do also get the impression that he’s struggling a bit due to his hands being tied to what JP2 put down in Humanae Vitae. He can’t exactly revoke it, he’d probably cause a schism. Yet it does seem he wants to move away from it.

If anything, the Catholic Church in the 21st century is a pretty interesting case study on the limits of gradualism and reform. More than what I originally expected could change has already changed. But there’s so many, like really quite a lot, of things I don’t think are even on the horizon and are gonna cost the Church a lot in this century. We’ll see.