Pope Francis: Church could support civil unions

[DemPGH]

"I see better than I hear."

We'll see, but the fact that he has shown this much audacity to change the tone of the conversation on the issue is "maybe kind of sort of possibly" promising. There's just so much bad tradition standing in the way, though. You don't just trash it when it's your calling card.

It's still FAR too heavily qualified to mark a substantive shift.