The Vatin creed Monday that the Catholic Church nnot bls same-sex unns sce God "nnot bls s," while upholdg the church's welg and blsg of gay people.
Contents:
- COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
- GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
" It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns. " 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. Pope Francis ma news recently by voicg his support for same-sex civil unns – legal arrangements that give gay and lbian upl many of the same rights as married oppose-sex upl.
The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage. Around the world, Catholics vary their support for same-sex marriage and their acceptance of homosexualy general, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center surveys nducted recent years. In the Uned Stat, about six--ten Catholics (61%) said a 2019 survey that they favor allowg gays and lbians to marry.
GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
In the wake of Pope Francis’ recent ment about same-sex civil unns, Pew Rearch Center nducted this analysis to better unrstand what Catholics around the world thk about legal regnn for same-sex upl and homosexualy general.
Rpons about whether society should be acceptg of homosexualy me om a global survey nducted om May 13 to Aug. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.
In Swzerland and Italy – which allow civil unns but not marriage for gay upl – 76% and 57% of Catholics, rpectively, said 2017 that they support gay marriage. When to Catholics’ views about homosexualy general, a global survey nducted 2019 also pats a mixed picture. In the Ameris, majori of Catholics several untri said society should be acceptg of homosexualy.
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
Other untri around the world where most Catholics said society should be acceptg of homosexualy clud Spa (91%), Atralia (81%), the Philipp (80%) and South Ai (62%). In Eastern Europe, acceptance was weaker, wh roughly half or fewer of Catholics sayg that homosexualy should be accepted by society Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Lhuania. In some of the other surveyed untri, cludg Ai and the Middle East, large majori of Catholics said homosexualy should not be accepted by society.
The global survey found that Catholics wh many untri generally are as acceptg as their non-Catholic patrts of homosexualy.
In Argenta, Brazil, Germany, Mexi and the Philipp, Catholics are somewhat more likely than non-Catholics to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society. And Poland, Catholics are ls likely than non-Catholics to say homosexualy should be accepted by society.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
The Catholic Church teach that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” and lls on gay people to practice “chasty, ” though also lls on Catholics to treat gay men and women wh “rpect, passn and sensivy. "The Vatin's orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse Monday to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy n bls gay answer, ntaed a two-page explanatn published seven languag and approved by Pope Francis, was "negative. "The note distguished between the church's welg and blsg of gay people, which upheld, but not their unns.
Vatin says no change doctre on gays after well-publicized Francis mentsThe note immediately disheartened advot for LGBTQ 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. -based New Ways Mistry, which advot for greater acceptance of gays the church, predicted the Vatin posn will be ignored, cludg by some Catholic clergy. Francis endorsed legal protectnsThe Vatin holds that gays mt be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is "trsilly disorred.