An enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay rights.
Contents:
- THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
- POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
- POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- WHAT POPE FRANCIS’S MENTS ABOUT GAY FAI ULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WORLDWI
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS
- POPE APPROVED GAY MARRIAGE OR SOMETHG...
- POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
The Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church doctre. * pope supports gay marriage *
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.
POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
Gay upl serve legal protectns for their relatnships, Pope Francis said a new documentary. * pope supports gay marriage *
" 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. 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.
POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
The Vatin said Pope Francis' remarks were taken out of ntext but still nfirmed the pontiff's belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns. * pope supports gay marriage *
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. ”Church doctre also explicly stat that marriage is between a man and a woman, a teachg Francis unwavergly Gibson/The New York TimFrancis’ precsors had also exprsed their opposn, though, to civil 2003, unr the pontifite of Pope John Pl II, the church’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, s doctral watchdog then led by the future Pope Benedict XVI, issued “Consiratns regardg proposals to give legal regnn to unns between homosexual persons.
WHAT POPE FRANCIS’S MENTS ABOUT GAY FAI ULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WORLDWI
The pope's ments support of gay civil unns did not go far enough and uld even harm the mpaign for same-sex marriage, LGBT+ rights mpaigners said on Thursday. * pope supports gay marriage *
“The church nnot support the acceptance of objectively immoral relatnships, ” said Bishop Tob of the pope’s remarks do not mean he has altered church teachg on the subject, and Francis has a track rerd of makg enuragg remarks for gay people.
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
By acknowledgg the worth of gay children, Pope Francis may rtore their tst the church. * pope supports gay marriage *
“Who am I to judge, ” Francis famoly answered when asked about a supposedly gay prit on that photo by Lu ZennaroIn his landmark 2016 document on the theme of fay — tled “Amoris Laetia, ” or “The Joy of Love” — Francis rejected same-sex marriage, yet lled on prits to be welg to people nontradnal relatnships, such as gay people, sgle parents and unmarried straight upl who live also once told Juan Carlos Cz, a Chilean sexual abe survivor and gay person whom he beiend, and who is featured the documentary, that “God ma you this way and lov you this way, and the pope lov you this way. “A pope sets the tone for the church and what he is dog is signalg to bishops and church lears that a wele for gay and lbian upl has to go forward, ” said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, an anizatn of L. 2, 2020Updated June 27, 2021ROME — The Vatin has nfirmed the pope’s remarks on gay upl servg civil protectns as sent an explanatory note to bishops unrlg that Francis’s ments did not mark a change church pope’s remarks ma headl last month after they appeared the documentary “Franc, ” at s Oct.
Afeevsky the Vatin note said that durg the Televisa terview, speakg of the ntroversy Argenta, Francis had argued for the right of gay upl to have legal Vatin note also poted to a 2014 terview which the pope had reerated that “marriage is between a man and a woman” but that secular stat uld seek to “jtify civil unns to regulate var suatns of existence, driven by the mand to regulate enomic aspects among people, such as ensurg health re. “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavr, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany, ” the document said. Hodg jo forc to oppose Amy Coney Barrett's nomatnBoth the platiff and fendant that se nmned the nomatn of Amy Coney Barrett, who has repeatedly been cricized by LGBTQ rights groups as hostile her alg wh issu pertag to gay marriage and protectns of transgenr 19th:A more nservative Supreme Court uld brg drastic chang for LGBTQ+ Amerins"We nnot allow her to reprent Print Tmp’s bigotry and bullyg at the Supreme Court for s to e, " said GLAAD print Sarah Kate Ellis a September statement.
POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS
Even Republin Catholics have a favorable view of lbians and gay men. * pope supports gay marriage *
Cy of Philalphia is on the Supreme Court's docket and will be heard se, focg on a Catholic foster re agency that receiv ernment fundg and was required to serve a gay uple lookg to foster a child, will ci whether agenci n discrimate on the basis of relign. The pope began a seri of meetgs and dialogu wh LGBT dividuals and activists — 2015 Throughout the first months of 2015, Pope Francis had several enunters wh LGBT dividuals and groups, cludg a transgenr man om Spa who was exclud om his parish muny, and gay and transgenr prisoners Napl. ROME — The Vatin says Pope Francis’ ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview, but still nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal Vatin secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to expla the uproar that Francis’ ments created followg the Oct.
“More than a year ago, durg an terview, Pope Francis answered two different qutns at two different tim that, the aforementned documentary, were eded and published as a sgle answer whout proper ntextualizatn, which has led to nfn, ” said the guidance posted by the film, Afeevsky reunts the story of Andrea Rubera, a married gay Catholic who wrote Francis askg for his advice about brgg to the church his three young children wh his was an anguished qutn, given that the Catholic Church teach that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but that homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred. ” The church also holds that marriage is an dissoluble unn between man and woman, and as a rult, gay marriage is the end, Rubera reunts how Francis urged him to approach his parish transparently and brg the children up the fah, which he did.
POPE APPROVED GAY MARRIAGE OR SOMETHG...
Many gay Catholics were hopg for a more lenient attu om this pope toward same-sex unns. * pope supports gay marriage *
Francis was not endorsg the right of gay upl to adopt children, even though the placement of the quote right after Rubera told his story ma seem that Francis pope’s ments about gay civil unns me om a different part of the Televisa terview and clud several veats that were not clud the the Televisa terview, Francis ma clear he was explag his posn about the unique se Buenos Air 10 years ago, as opposed to Rubera’s suatn or gay marriage as a the Televisa terview, Francis also sisted that he always mataed Catholic doctre and said there was an “ngy” for the Catholic Church as far as “homosexual marriage” is documentary elimated that Televisa footage is available onle, and clus an awkward cut right after Francis spoke about the “ngy” of homosexual marriage.
But don’t expla how his support for extendg Argente legal protectns to gay upl 2010 uld be squared wh the 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, which says “the prcipl of rpect and non-discrimatn nnot be voked to support legal regnn of homosexual unns.
”“If they want to spend their liv together, a homosexual uple, natns have the possibily civilly to support them, to give them safety wh regards to herance and health, ” he the subject of civil unns, Francis suggted that wing the spe of who n receive partner benefs uld benef many groups of people.
POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
LGBTQ+ advot hail Pope’s rejectn of sexual orientatn as crime and ll to bishops to rist anti-gay laws as ‘tone’ * pope supports gay marriage *
MEXICO CITY (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The pope’s ments support of gay civil unns did not go far enough and uld even harm the mpaign for same-sex marriage, LGBT+ rights mpaigners said on a documentary lled “Franc” released on Wednday, the pontiff said that gay upl need legal rights and that “homosexual people have a right to be a fay”, some of his cleart language on the subject sce his electn after years of opposn by the Catholic Church to gay sex and same-sex marriage, the pope’s ments will do ltle to advance LGBT+ rights or repair the damage done to gay people, LGBT+ mpaigners majory-Catholic Lat Ameri said. Followg a high urt lg that was publicly rejected by Catholic church lears, Ecuador legalised gay marriage last year, one of 28 untri to do rights activists said the pope’s support for civil unns uld unrme the mpaign for gay marriage some untri by suggtg a kd of ‘separate but equal’ alternative. “Creatg an stutn that is unequal isn’t good bee ’s also a form of discrimatn, ” said Mariano Ruiz, a board member of the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia mtee Lat pontiff’s latt ments echo his stance as archbishop of Buenos Air, where he volly opposed gay marriage prr to s legalisatn Argenta 2010, even as he supported some kd of legal protectn for gay Ruiz said the pope’s ments would have a major impact on the fahful.