Vatin bars gay unn blsg, says God 'n't bls s' | AP News

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• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
• IN SETBACK FOR GAY CATHOLICS, VATIN SAYS CHURCH NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS
• THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE

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

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. 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.

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

“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. Such projects are not equently motivated by a scere sire to wele and acpany homosexual persons, to whom are proposed paths of growth fah, “so that those who manift a homosexual orientatn n receive the assistance they need to unrstand and fully rry out God’s will their liv”[1].

This is bee they would nstute a certa imatn or analogue of the nuptial blsg[7] voked on the man and woman uned the sacrament of Matrimony, while fact “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”[8]. The Christian muny and s Pastors are lled to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns, and will know how to fd the most appropriate ways, nsistent wh Church teachg, to proclaim to them the Gospel s fullns. In the prent se, a disputed qutn has arisen the amework of the “scere sire to wele and acpany homosexual persons, to whom are proposed paths of growth fah” (Explanatory Note), as dited by the Holy Father Pope Francis at the ncln of two Synodal Assembli on the fay: “so that those who manift a homosexual orientatn n receive the assistance they need to unrstand and fully rry out God’s will their liv” (Apostolic Exhortatn Amoris laetia, n.

4 of the Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons wrten by the same Congregatn, and relled by the Catechism of the Catholic Church, mt never be fotten: “Acrdg to the teachg of the Church, men and women wh homosexual tennci ‘mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy. ” In 2019, he spoke support of legal protectn for same-sex upl, a remark that me to light through the Vatin-approved film “Franc, ” which tells of him enuragg a gay uple he knows to raise their three children as Catholics a Rome parish, even as he remd them that “not all people will share your choice of havg a fay like that. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay Casilli/RtersPublished June 27, 2021Updated July 6, 2021VATICAN CITY — A lear the Roman Catholic Church’s effort to reach out to L.

IN SETBACK FOR GAY CATHOLICS, VATIN SAYS CHURCH NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS

Catholics revealed on Sunday that Pope Francis had sent him a eply enuragg note, ppg an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s attu toward gay Tuday, the Vatin nfirmed that had tried to fluence the affairs of the Italian state by exprsg grave ncerns about legislatn currently Parliament that creas protectns for L.

And days later, the Vatin’s send mand sisted the church had nothg agast gay rights, but was protectg self om leavg the church’s re beliefs open to crimal charg of eight years after Pope Francis famoly rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”Those words will almost certaly give sucr to Francis’ liberal supporters, many of whom were eply disheartened by a March rponse by the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, the church’s top doctral office, to an quiry about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. ”His landmark 2016 document on fay — tled “The Joy of Love” — rejected same-sex marriage but lled on prits to be welg to people nontradnal relatnships, like gay recently, Francis exprsed support for same-sex civil unns.

THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE

People the church, which ma the Vatin’s March rejectn of the blsg of gay unns so much Carlos Cz, a Chilean sexual abe survivor and gay person whom the pope beiend, wrote an opn article a Chilean newspaper that cricized the doctral watchdog’s rejectn of blsgs as sultg to L. Church’s doctral office is led by Cardal Luis Ladaria, who was handpicked by the pope and is seen as lock step wh an explanatory note, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah said that while welg gay people, who have a right to be blsed, the church will not bls same-sex unns bee God “do not and nnot bls s. Vatin officials wh knowledge of the document said that the pope did not at any time oppose the cisn, and that he was absolutely clear on qutns of church cisn prompted wispread disappotment, even disgt, among gay Catholics and their advot.

Alsandro Zan, the bill’s sponsor, said such ncerns were outlandish and not reflected the the pope clearly approved the terventn, Cardal Gvanni Battista Re told Rome’s Il Msaggero newspaper on reactn was tense and angry om Italians who acced the Vatin of impgg on the state’s mocratic procs and om trated and nfed gay Catholics who aga saw the pope, spe everythg he had said, as actg agast an apparent effort at damage ntrol, Cardal Pietro Parol, the Vatin’s secretary of state and the send hight-rankg official after the pope, released a statement on said that the Vatin was not seekg to block the legislatn but worried that the vague draft language, and the enormo latu of Italian judg, uld lead to crimal discrimatn charg for basic church practic.

The note immediately pleased nservativ, disheartened advot for LGBT Catholics and threw a wrench the bate wh the German church, which has been at the foreont of openg discsn on hot-button issu such the church’s teachg on homosexualy. ”In the new document and an acpanyg unsigned article, the Vatin said qutns had been raised about whether the church should bls same-sex unns a sacramental way recent years, and after Francis had sisted on the need to better wele gays the was an apparent reference to the German church, where some bishops have been phg the envelope on issu such as pritly celibacy, ntraceptn and the church’s outreach to gay Catholics after g unr prsure by powerful lay Catholic groups mandg change. ”In the article, the Vatin strsed the “fundamental and cisive distctn” between gay dividuals and gay unns, notg that “the negative judgment on the blsg of unns of persons of the same sex do not imply a judgment on persons.