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• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE BANS HIGHLIGHTS CATHOLIC 'CIVIL WAR'
• POPE FRANCIS’S TAC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE SUBVERTS SCRIPTURE TO PLEASE THE WORLD
• VATIN SAYS PRITS N'T BLS GAY UPL. WHY DID POPE FRANCIS APPROVE THIS CREE?
• POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
• WHAT POPE FRANCIS REALLY SAID ABOUT (GAY) MARRIAGE -- AND WHAT HE DID NOT
• SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS
• OPN WHAT THE POPE GOT RIGHT WH HIS CREE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• WHAT DID THE POPE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE? AN EXPLAER
• POPE FRANCIS SIGNS LG THAT CATHOLIC CHURCH NNOT BLS GAY MARRIAG BEE GOD ‘NNOT BLS S’
• POPE FRANCIS ON GAY MARRIAGE, UNMARRIED MOTHERS … AND JOURNALISTS

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

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. 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. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has clarified his recent ments about homosexualy and s, sayg he was merely referrg to official Catholic moral teachg that teach that any sexual act outsi of marriage is a a note Friday, Francis relled that even that black-and-whe teachg is subject to circumstanc that might elimate the s altogether.

Stat still have laws agast sodomy, spe the Supreme Court clarg them unnstutnal pope said that some bishops om untri that crimalize homosexualy support the laws bee they're part of the lol culture, and he lled on those bishops to unrgo a procs of "nversn, " orr to wele LGBQT people to their mistry "wh tenrns.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

Pope Francis took one of his strongt posns yet agast legislatn around the world that crimaliz homosexualy or otherwise discrimat agast LGBTQ dividuals Tuday, seemgly ditg that the learship of the Catholic Church—long divid over the qutn of s posn toward the muny—was begng to take a firmer posn of solidary wh the LGBTQ muny.

"Beg homosexual isn't a crime, " Francis said durg an exclive terview wh the Associated Prs published Francis still referred to homosexualy the ntext of "s, " the ments were ld by many who saw the ments as one of the first public steps by a Catholic pope to affirm the relign's acceptance of members of the LGBTQ muny who have long felt maligned by the Catholic tradn. Jt days earlier, Francis' precsor—the more nservative late Pope Benedict XVI—released a posthumo book of says through his publisher ntag a number of revealg claims about his own philosophy of the church as well as ncerns of a proliferatn of homosexualy wh the ranks of clergy, reprentg another book a seri of books cril of Pope Francis that were released the wake of Benedict's ath on December recent memoir by Benedict's longtime secretary, Archbishop Ge Ganswe, released January prompted a s-down between the two men after Ganswe claimed Francis was abandong old tradns of the church, cludg wh his outreach toward divorced members of the church as well as movg away om the Lat Mass, which has been growg favor wh more nservative sects of the Catholic headl wrote themselv: Were the tell-all books the start of a "civil war" as the Catholic-fund publitn Cx posed Tuday? Universy of New Hampshire soclogist Michele Dillon, an expert on Catholic views on secular society, noted that Francis still voked official church teachgs that homosexualy was a s even his nunciatn of discrimatn toward the LGBTQ muny, a posture that has ed "a lot of anguish for many gay and lbian Catholics.

However, Francis is a tight spot: The bate over Francis' visn for the church and that of Benedict's—a much more nservative figure—date back well before eher man ascend to lead the Vatin, wh recent events only servg to exacerbate those the wake of the send Vatin Council the early 1960s, a rift began to form between clergy who believed the church should adhere to a more rigoro standard of tradnal Catholic valu and others who believed the church should bee more progrsive and reflective of an creasgly secular world around the church has long acknowledged that the state is ee to enact laws that may be at odds wh church teachgs, Dillon not that the church has ntued civil bat around subjects like gay marriage and divorce to reaffirm the sfulns of those behavrs for the duly elected lear of the Catholic church, Francis—nsired to be among the more progrsive pop recent history—has sought to leave his own imprt on the church. Fernánz wrote about the oral soon after Bergogl was elected Pope Francis, reuntg that a newspaper article he had penned about gay marriage had been clud the anonymo dossier and that an unnamed Vatin “ngregatn” – believed to be the one rponsible for Catholic tn -- repeatedly refed to receive him to expla himself. 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.

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

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. 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 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.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE BANS HIGHLIGHTS CATHOLIC 'CIVIL WAR'

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.

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.

POPE FRANCIS’S TAC SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE SUBVERTS SCRIPTURE TO PLEASE THE WORLD

”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. ”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.

VATIN SAYS PRITS N'T BLS GAY UPL. WHY DID POPE FRANCIS APPROVE THIS CREE?

“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. 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.

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

“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. 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. Siarly, German Cardal Rehard Marx of Munich and Freisg, who serv on Francis' uncil of rdal advisers, has said that gay upl n receive a blsg om the church " the sense of pastoral re, " though he sought to distguish om the same blsg the church offers to married upl, sayg, "The sacrament of marriage is aimed at a fahful relatnship between a man and a woman that is open to children.

Yet this same culture prents others wh so many optns that they too are dissuad om startg a off, go whout sayg that gay and lbian people are a part of fai and have fai, and many are parents and raise children -- and Francis knows this bee he has met wh gay activists who are married and who have children. We'll know for sure a uple of so far, the pope at bt spoke -- as when, durg his addrs at the Whe Hoe, and soundg like Republin polil ndidat, he talked of fendg "relig liberty" the ntext of also protectg people agast discrimatn -- and at worst (for anti-gay nservativ, of urse) he pletely dodged the issue durg his addrs to Congrs, focg stead on other forc plagug the fay.

Pope Francis livers his Sunday Angel blsg om the wdow of his private stud to pilgrims gathered Sat Peter's Square on January 08, 2023 ROME (AP) - Pope Francis has clarified his recent ments about homosexualy and s, sayg he was merely referrg to official Catholic moral teachg that teach that any sexual act outsi of marriage is a s. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

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

Fernánz wrote about the oral soon after Bergogl was elected Pope Francis, reuntg that a newspaper article he had penned about gay marriage had been clud the anonymo dossier and that an unnamed Vatin “ngregatn” – believed to be the one rponsible for Catholic tn -- repeatedly refed to receive him to expla has also had to acknowledge mistak his handlg of a 2019 se volvg a prit acced of sexually abg mors.

VATICAN CITY, Jan 26 (Rters) - Pope Francis said on Wednday that parents of gay children should not nmn them but offer them spoke unscripted ments at his weekly dience reference to difficulti that parents n face raisg issu clud "parents who see different sexual orientatns their children and how to handle this, how to acpany their children, and not hi behd an attu of nmnatn, " Francis has prevly said that gays have a right to be accepted by their fai as children and has also said that while the Church nnot accept same-sex marriage n support civil unn laws aimed at givg gay partners jot rights areas of pensns and health re and herance issu. REUTERS/Remo CasilliLast year, the Vatin's doctral office issued a document sayg that Catholic prits nnot bls same-sex unns, a lg that greatly disappoted gay some untri, such as the Uned Stat and Germany, parish and misters had begun blsg same-sex unns li of marriage, and there have been lls for bishops to facto stutnalise the.

SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN IF THEY ARE GAY, POPE TELLS PARENTS

3 billn-member Church have said the pope - who has sent not of appreciatn to prits and nuns who mister to gay Catholics - is givg mixed signals on homosexualy, nfg some of the month, a Vatin partment apologised for "g pa to the entire LGBTQ muny" by removg om s webse a lk to rource material om a Catholic gay rights advocy group preparatn for a Vatin meetg 2023 on the Church's future directn.

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to harass homosexuals, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg that nsirs homosexual activy “trsilly disorred, ” while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi. “This is Francis dog much the same — shockg progrsiv by affirmg the church’s teachg that sexual activy outsi of the marriage of one man and one woman is ntrary to the good of human digny, ” Pecknold church said Monday that s termatn was not tend to be “a form of unjt discrimatn” and lled on prits to wele those wh “homosexual clatns” wh rpect and sensivy.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS

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.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS

”Other cril mentators noted the Catholic Book of Blsgs ntas blsgs that n be btowed on everythg om new hom and factori to animals, sportg events, seeds before plantg and farm Carlos Cz, a Chilean survivor of sexual abe who is gay and close to Francis, said the document was out of step wh Francis’ pastoral approach and was tone af to the needs and rights of LGBT Catholics.

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

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The Vatin said on Monday that prits nnot bls same-sex unns, disappotg LGBT+ Catholics who had hoped that the Church was beg more open unr Pope Francis, who has prevly said he uld not judge gay lg was issued by the Vatin’s doctral office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, rponse to qutns om a number of dc as to whether misters were allowed to bls same-sex some untri, cludg the Uned Stat and Germany, parish and misters had begun givg blsgs, li of marriage, which had alarmed nservativ the 1. 3 billn-member is a timele of Pope Francis and the Vatin’s major statements on LGBT+ issu:2010 - As the head of the Catholic Church Argenta, the Pope, then Cardal Je Bergogl, said gay marriage was “a strategy to stroy God’s plan”, as he unsuccsfully urged lawmakers to vote agast legalisg exprsed particular ncern about the bill allowg same-sex upl to adopt, sayg was important to ensure that children had “both a father and a mother” as role mols.

2018 - A Chilean man who was sexually abed by a prit said Pope Francis told him a private nversatn that God had ma him gay and loved him that 2019 - The Vatin nmned genr theory as an attempt to “annihilate nature” an “stctn” to Catholic tors that was not signed by Pope Francis, but quoted his speech and teachgs and those of prev pop.

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

WHAT DID THE POPE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE? AN EXPLAER

POPE FRANCIS SIGNS LG THAT CATHOLIC CHURCH NNOT BLS GAY MARRIAG BEE GOD ‘NNOT BLS S’

POPE FRANCIS ON GAY MARRIAGE, UNMARRIED MOTHERS … AND JOURNALISTS