John Bursch

John Bursch is Vice President of Appellate Advocacy for Alliance Defending Freedom and owner of Bursch Law PLLC. He has argued 12 U.S. Supreme Court cases, three dozen state supreme court cases, and many others defending religious liberty, free speech, parental rights, marriage and family, and the right to life. A Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus, John recently authored Loving God’s Children: The Church and Gender Ideology available at Sophia Institute Press.

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Pope Francis blesses a married couple at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, November 15, 2023.

Pope Francis Did Not Just Authorize Priests to Bless Same-Sex Unions

COMMENTARY: Anyone who claims that the Fiducia Supplicans authorizes blessings of same-sex unions has not read the declaration or is intentionally misinterpreting it.

John Bursch Commentaries December 19, 2023

As Pope St. John Paul II beautifully put it in his theology of the body, “the body expresses the person.”

‘Transgender’ Baptisms? Sorting Out the Vatican’s Recent Statement

COMMENTARY: It is critically important to carefully read the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith’s answers to Bishop Negri’s questions in context — and to ignore silly headlines from media sources that do not understand Catholic teaching.

John Bursch Commentaries November 14, 2023

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Pope Francis Did Not Just Authorize Priests to Bless Same-Sex Unions

‘Transgender’ Baptisms? Sorting Out the Vatican’s Recent Statement

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