Our hope is that, by the time a young person begs askg qutns about their own sexual orientatn, they already tst that there is a place for gay people the Catholic Church.
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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.
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. The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn.