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ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CELEBRATG ‘GAY PRI’ MASS
The Catholic Church has not ma any chang to doctre ncerng LGBTQ people, and acrdg to s techism, homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred. On Father’s Day (June 19), Alex Shgleton and Landon Duyka, a civilly married gay uple wh two dghters, stood before ngregants at Old Sat Patrick’s Church the Archdce of Chigo to read a reflectn on the hoy.
“In all honty, if you had told as young boys who wasted untls hours of our liv church tryg to ‘pray the gay away’ that we someday would be standg ont of all of you our Catholic Church talkg about our fay on Father’s Day, we would never have believed you, ” they said their reflectn. Yet, spe the welg signals, the Vatin’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued a statement March 2021 banng the blsg of gay upl, cg the ncern that fahful might nsir such unns equivalent to marriage between a man and a woman and statg that the Catholic Church “nnot bls s.
Jt weeks after the ban, German prits, open fiance, blsed numero gay upl hundreds of ceremoni around the untry. Pietro Morotti and Giao Spagnoli, a gay uple Bologna, Italy, were among those who voiced on social media their disappotment the Vatin ban.
THE CORRECT CATHOLIC RPONSE TO “GAY PRI” EVENTS
“Try to get to know the two people, or homosexual upl, who participate our group, person. In 2020, the rdal wrote another preface for a book by Italian journalist Luciano di Moia, “The Church and Homosexualy, ” offerg pastoral guil to mister to gay Catholics. “When our muni will beg to tly see people as God se them, cludg homosexual people and everyone else, they will naturally beg to feel part of the ecclial muny, on the way, ” Zuppi wrote the preface to the book by di Moia.
2 official at the doctral partment, nsired rponsible for the document banng gay blsgs, om his posn. June is lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Pri month around the untry.
It was a pri that brgs people together, gay or straight. As the parents of LGBT folks march wh their signs readg “I love my gay son” or “Relatnships are prec, ” my heart swells wh, well, pri. Let all work to end prejudice and discrimatn for all people, cludg those of who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.