Six thgs you need to know about Pope Francis and gay civil unns

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS EMBRAC CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY UPL: ‘HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE A FAY’
• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• ‘EUROPE’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE’ SPARKS NTROVERSY
• SIX THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POPE FRANCIS AND GAY CIVIL UNNS

POPE FRANCIS EMBRAC CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY UPL: ‘HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE A FAY’

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Pope Francis' statements are a parture om prev ments about LGBT rightsPope Francis has said that he thks same-sex upl should be allowed to have "civil unns" ma the ments, which observers say are his cleart remarks yet on gay relatnships, a documentary directed by Evgeny Afeevsky. " He add that he "stood up for that", apparently referrg to his time as Archbishop of Buenos Air when, although opposg same-sex marriag law, he supported some legal protectns for same-sex film Franc, about the life and work of Pope Francis, premiered as part of the Rome Film well as the Pope's ments on civil unns, the film also shows him enuragg two gay men to attend church wh their three Francis's bgrapher, Aten Ivereigh, told the BBC he was "not surprised" by the latt ments. "Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope.

" he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story. Check back for a new documentary that premiered Rome yterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unns for same-sex upl for the first time as portrayed the documentary, the pope says: “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay. In fact, Pope Francis’ support of civil unns dat back to his days as archbishop of Buenos Air, when he proposed civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage, a posn he has reerated as recently as the pope mistranslated?

”No one remembered, however, bee that part of the clip had never McElwee of the Natnal Catholic Reporter pared the clips si by si and found that the pope’s quote about how gay people “have a right to be part of the fay” was clud Mr. It said the ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview but nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns. Most pot to a 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah statg that “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’

”That document lled policians’ support of same-sex unns “gravely immoral” and said that “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavur, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany. Cardal William Levada, who succeed Cardal Ratzger as head of the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah, termed 1997 as archbishop of San Francis that, rponse to the cy’s legalizatn of gay marriage, he would extend health re benefs to one other person livg wh any of his archdce’s employe, regardls of their relatnship. That way, gay upl were vered, as were, for example, two unmarried siblgs livg, the pope has not changed church teachg, but he has certaly changed the pastoral tone wh which the church approach L.

‘EUROPE’S FIRST GAY-IENDLY MOSQUE’ SPARKS NTROVERSY

Catholics yterday, cludg the advocy groups Digny and New Ways Mistry, who celebrated the statement on civil unns but were unr no illns that the church had changed s teachg on gay else has Pope Francis said on L. Children that God lov their children and his reported statement to Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man who is a survivor of sexual abe, that God ma him the new documentary, the pope’s words are paired wh the story of Andrea Rubera, a gay man who adopted three children wh his partner.

”The pope’s “endorsement of civil unns is not an endorsement of homosexual activy, ” the rdal said, while also notg that Francis is “very aware of the sufferg and alienatn of homosexual dividuals, gay people, who are rejected by fay and society. Shortly after beg pope 2013, he ma big headl when asked about reports of gays the clergy, Francis answered, "If someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? In 2003, the Vatin's office on doctre — unr the learship of Cardal Joseph Ratzger, the future Pope Benedict XVI — tght that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

SIX THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POPE FRANCIS AND GAY CIVIL UNNS

As part of this regnn, Pope Francis emphasized that gay and lbian people are “children of God and have a right to a fay, ” and that “[n]obody should be thrown out, or be ma miserable bee of . 21, 2020Updated June 27, 2021ROME — Pope Francis exprsed support for same-sex civil unns remarks revealed a documentary film that premiered on Wednday, a signifint break om his precsors that staked out new ground for the church s regnn of gay remarks, g om the lear of the Roman Catholic Church, had the potential to shift bat about the legal stat of same-sex upl natns around the globe and unsettle bishops worried that the unns threaten what the church nsirs tradnal marriage — between one man and one woman. ”Many gay Catholics and their alli outsi the church weled the pope’s remarks, though Francis’ opposn to gay marriage wh the church remaed nservative crics wh the church hierarchy, and pecially the nservative wg of the church the Uned Stat, who have for years acced him of dilutg church doctre, saw the remarks as a reversal of church teachg.

The ments shown the film are likely to generate exactly the sort of discsn the pope has repeatedly sought to foster on issu once nsired forbidn the church’s culture Granati/Corbis, via Getty ImagFrancis had already drastilly shifted the tone of the church on qutns related to homosexualy, but he has done ltle on policy and not changed teachg for a church that se s future growth the Southern Hemisphere, where the cleril hierarchy is generally ls tolerant of remark “ no way affects doctre, ” the Rev.

Anton Spadaro, a Ju prit and close ally of Francis, told the televisn channel of the Italian bishops nference on Wednday remarks the documentary were keepg wh Francis’ general support for gay people, but were perhaps his most specific and proment on the issue of civil unns, which even tradnally Catholic natns like Italy, Ireland and Argenta have permted recent director of the documentary, Evgeny Afeevsky, told The New York Tim that Francis had ma the remarks directly to him for the film. Alazraki had told The Tim that she did not rell the pope makg the ments to 2010, as Argenta was on the verge of approvg gay marriage, Francis, then rdal archbishop of Buenos Air, supported the ia of civil unns for gay Mabromata/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagAs pope 2014, he told the Corriere lla Sera, Italy’s largt newspaper, that natns legalizg civil unns did so mostly to give same-sex partners legal rights and health re benefs and that he uldn’t exprs a blanket posn. “You have to see the different s and evaluate them their variety, ” he said Francis’ remarks the documentary, explicly supportg civil unns as pope and on mera, had the potential for much greater impact on the bate over the regnn of gay upl by the church.