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While Pope Francis' ments supportg same sex civil unns were a drastic shift Catholic church guidance, U.S. Catholics have supported gay marriage for about a .

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IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Patrick Day Para Commtee’s cisn to allow a gay group to march the 2015 para unr their own banner. This was a remarkable shift om one of Dolan’s precsors Cardal John O’Connor who 1993 clared that to allow a gay group to march the para would be a slanr to the Apostle’s Creed.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

This clos a remarkable summer which a number of high-rankg Catholic prelat have signaled that Pope Francis’s more open posture on gay issu has permeated through the Catholic world.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

And jt a few weeks ago, one of Pope Francis’s clost iends Brazilian Cardal Cláud Humm said an terview that he “didn’t know” whether J would oppose gay marriage. All this begs the qutn: is the Catholic Church “evolvg” on gay marriage? Don’t expect Pope Francis to e out support of gay marriage anytime soon.

As the archbishop of Buenos Air, he supported civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage durg 2010 natnal bate on the issue. In July of last year, he famoly said, “[i]f someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

Sce the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah ma the raw claratn 1975 that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” the Vatin has ma abundantly clear where stood on homosexualy and issu surroundg , most notably same-sex marriage.

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

In , they wre: “God do not love someone any ls simply bee he or she is homosexual.

” It says Church misters mt “wele homosexual persons to the fah muny, and seek out those on the margs.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Francis’s simple pastoral step isn’t breakg any new ground theologilly nor is tendg to change the Church’s polil stanc on gay marriage. Pope Francis recently revealed his support for gay civil unns, breakg om Catholic tradn.

Followg Pope Francis’s announcement clarg support for civil unn laws for same-sex upl, which breaks wh tradnal Catholic valu that oppose homosexual relatnships, the lear has garnered both cricism and support om people all over the world. Most recently, NBC reports that retired Philippe Bishop Arturo Bast mented that he “had very ser doubts about the moral rrectns” of the Pope’s stance on legalizg gay relatnships. “I am really sndalized by his fense of homosexual unn, which surely leads to immoral acts.

BLSG GAY UNNS

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GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? In the film, the pontiff said that gay dividuals are “children of God and have a right to a fay.

While the lear of the Catholic Church exprsed his support for gay civil unns, other branch of the church rema adamant the tradnal Catholic valu.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

GAY CONVERSION THERAPY OFFICIALLY BANNED IN VIRGINIA. In an apparent rponse to those ncerns, the Vatin said on Monday that s claratn is not meant to be "unjt discrimatn." It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns." The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people.

FERAL URT L RONLLI CATHOLIC SCHOOL, ARCHDCE WAS ALLOWED TO FIRE A 2ND GAY UNSELOR

"This statement is hurtful to same-sex upl, and dismissive of the grace monstrated by same-sex upl who live eply lovg and mted relatnships." The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay." That le om "Amoris Laetia" (The Joy of Love), the papal treatise on fai that was wily seen as Pope Francis' move to make the Catholic Church more clive. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law." But rights advot also noted that the pope's remarks didn't promise a change wh the church, sayg the ment seemed to reflect his own opns, rather than a shift Catholic doctre.

Pope Francis ma news recently by voicg his support for same-sex civil unns – legal arrangements that give gay and lbian upl many of the same rights as married oppose-sex upl. The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE: REIMAGG CHURCH HISTORY

Around the world, Catholics vary their support for same-sex marriage and their acceptance of homosexualy general, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center surveys nducted recent years. In the Uned Stat, about six--ten Catholics (61%) said a 2019 survey that they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry.

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Catholics' views of gay marriage around the world | Pew Rearch Center .

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