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 .
Contents:
- THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
* catholic church statement on gay marriage *
" The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people. 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. 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.
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
“Catholic people regnize the hols of the love between mted same-sex upl and regnize this love as dively spired and dively supported and th meets the standard to be blsed,” the Pope said a statement about gay marriage. * catholic church statement on gay marriage *
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. 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.
" The Roman Catholic Church has long held that beg gay isn't a s but that beg a gay relatnship or havg gay sex is. They also n’t serve as wns at Catholic baptisms or, the guidance says, gay and transgenr people n participate such sacraments if they repent. For gay, lbian, bisexual and queer people, that would mean endg same-sex relatnships, and for trans people, would mean livg as the sex they were assigned at birth, although the guidance says trans people who have unrgone "physil chang to the body" aren’t required to reverse, acrdance wh Catholic doctre, the guidance says children of same-sex married upl n be baptized if they are raised the Catholic fah and tght that same-sex marriage go agast the church's teachgs.
’”Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignyUSA, which advot for LGBTQ rights the Catholic Church, said the guidance is part of a larger trend of dc’ "makg statements that look like they're tryg to be helpful to gay, queer and transgenr people but that are really dog harm to the spirual, emotnal and physil health of our muny and to fai. Persons wh a homosexual clatn ought to receive every aid and enuragement to embrace this ll personally and fully.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
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.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred. ” While the Catholic Church do not nsir “homosexual orientatn” sful and of self, do have a very negative attu toward .
The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr.
VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’
A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.
” ment––ma rponse to a qutn about the acceptabily of gay men as prits––his statement is not official church teachg. Today, many men’s relig orrs and some bishops often make their own cisns regardg gay men as ndidat for the semary and prithood.
His posn stood ntrast to that of his precsors: Months earlier, Pope Benedict XVI suggted that gay marriage was a threat to global peace.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love, or reject and nmn this person?