Many gay Catholics were hopg for a more lenient attu om this pope toward same-sex unns.
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- POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS
POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
An enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay rights. * pope francis lgbt *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay Casilli/RtersPublished June 27, 2021Updated July 6, 2021VATICAN CITY — A lear the Roman Catholic Church’s effort to reach out to L. Catholics revealed on Sunday that Pope Francis had sent him a eply enuragg note, ppg an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s attu toward gay Tuday, the Vatin nfirmed that had tried to fluence the affairs of the Italian state by exprsg grave ncerns about legislatn currently Parliament that creas protectns for L.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
NPR's Leila Fal speaks wh Juan Carlos Cz, a gay Chilean man who is a survivor of clergy sex abe, about remarks by Pope Francis that crimalizg homosexualy is "unjt." * pope francis lgbt *
And days later, the Vatin’s send mand sisted the church had nothg agast gay rights, but was protectg self om leavg the church’s re beliefs open to crimal charg of eight years after Pope Francis famoly rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”Those words will almost certaly give sucr to Francis’ liberal supporters, many of whom were eply disheartened by a March rponse by the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, the church’s top doctral office, to an quiry about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. “Negative, ” was the answer, which Francis people who support gay rights and are close to the pope say he told them that he relented unr prsure om the ngregatn, a cisn he regretted and hoped to rectify.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS
Francis stunned the fahful and a secular dience more acctomed to sldg about homosexualy and gay marriage when asked by reporters about a prit who was said to be gay, he rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”His landmark 2016 document on fay — tled “The Joy of Love” — rejected same-sex marriage but lled on prits to be welg to people nontradnal relatnships, like gay recently, Francis exprsed support for same-sex civil unns. People the church, which ma the Vatin’s March rejectn of the blsg of gay unns so much Carlos Cz, a Chilean sexual abe survivor and gay person whom the pope beiend, wrote an opn article a Chilean newspaper that cricized the doctral watchdog’s rejectn of blsgs as sultg to L.