What Pope Francis Really Said About (Gay) Marriage -- and What He Did Not | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
• OPN WHAT THE POPE GOT RIGHT WH HIS CREE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT
• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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

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POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

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.

POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”

Pope Francis livered a disappotment to Catholic LGBT muni Monday, wh a cree reaffirmg that prits should not bls same-sex move stood ntrast to the pontiff’s past statements llg for the legalizatn of same-sex unns and urgg cln — part of a shift toward an crementally more welg tone toward gay people the more nciliatory rhetoric has stopped short of doctral chang.

German bishops have been nductg a multiyear reevaluatn of the Catholic Church’s stanc on practic cludg celibacy, women learship and homosexualy — much to the chagr of the stutn’s more nservative the pope traveled to Ai 2019, his fourth vis to the ntent — which has the fastt-growg Catholic populatn the world — sce beg pontiff 2013, he preached awarens of poverty, climate change and passn for refuge.

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OPN WHAT THE POPE GOT RIGHT WH HIS CREE ON GAY MARRIAGE

”“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. Dpe Francis’s relative gay-iendls — he has said LGBTQ people have a right to a fay, and he supports civil unns — the Catholic Church has never been anythg other than clear on s centuri-old stance that same-sex relatns are a Catholics n look at all the “liberal” pope’s tiptoeg toward equy and hope for a maybe-someday future of full cln, but that’s very different om a llege kid hopg a church will affirm him now. ” His ongog support for civil unns has been as an alternative to gay marriage, not a bridge toward ntext, pecially listeng to the rt of the clip, seems the pope is discsg gay people’s fay of orig, rebg parents who reject their gay children.

Catholic teachg forbids same-sex marriage but not same-sex love — the venant of David and Jonathan, the promis of Ruth and Naomi, the vows of iendship taken by Wtern Christian pairs, godparentg relatnships and even tentnal muni such as the Catholic Worker, we see forms of love and kship that don’t require marriage or no, the pope do not support gay marriage; those who believe the latt clips dite a change of his stance will be disappoted.

WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT

What surprised and lighted many gay people, both outsi and wh the church, was the possibily that he would speak about our longgs posive of who seek to obey the Catholic teachg have had to learn, wh more hdrance than help om our hierarchy, how to exprs our longgs for love and home harmony wh our fah.

VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’

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.

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

”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. “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.

POPE'S SUPPORT FOR GAY CIVIL UNNS SEEN AS THREAT TO SAME-SEX 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.