What Did the Vatin Really Say About Gay Marriage Yterday? Catholics Disagree

Contents:

• VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’
• THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DID THE VATIN REALLY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE YTERDAY? CATHOLICS DISAGREE
• POPE FRANCIS WON’T BUDGE ON GAY MARRIAGE: “MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE”
• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• VATIN REVIEWG CATHOLIC STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE, CONTRACEPTN; CALLS FOR BEG 'LS JUDGMENTAL'

VATIN BARS GAY MARRIAGE BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘CAN’T BLS S’

" 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.

THE VATIN ON GAY MARRIAGE

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVatin Clarifi Pope Francis’s Comments on Same-Sex UnnsThe Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church Bia/Associated PrsPublished Nov.

WHAT DID THE VATIN REALLY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE YTERDAY? CATHOLICS DISAGREE

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.

In the documentary, he reerated his view that gay people are “children of God, ” and said: “What we have to create is a civil unn law. Argenta was the first untry Lat Ameri to legalize same-sex the Televisa terview, the rrponnt Valenta Alazraki asked the pope whether his posn on gay marriage had softened upon beg pope. 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”

A 2003 document issued by the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah says that the church’s “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. “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. 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 have the thory to bls gay unns.

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

The note immediately 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. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of 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 has endorsed providg gay upl wh legal protectns same-sex unns, but that was reference to the civil sphere, not wh the church.

Then-Cardal Je Mar Bergogl stead supported providg legal protectns for gays stable unns through a so-lled “law of civil habatn. 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 and acpany gays the church.

The German church has been at the foreont of phg the bate on celibacy, ntraceptn and the church’s outreach to gay Catholics, prsured by a powerful lay Catholic group 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. In 2003, the same Vatin office issued a siar cree sayg that the church’s rpect for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

VATIN REVIEWG CATHOLIC STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE, CONTRACEPTN; CALLS FOR BEG 'LS JUDGMENTAL'

In the document, prepared after the first week of a two-week gatherg, the bishops suggted the Church regnize that homosexuals had “gifts and quali to offer the Christian muny. ” The document also posed the qutn of whether the Christian muny was pable of acceptg them “whout promisg Catholic doctre on the fay and matrimony;” sayg that often homosexuals were hopg for a “Church that offers them a welg home. “Whout nyg the moral problems nnected to homosexual unns, ” the document said, “ has to be noted that there are s which mutual aid to the pot of sacrifice nstut a prec support the life of the partners.

Shortly after assumg the papacy, Francis rpond to qutns on the prence of a ‘gay lobby’ the Vatin wh: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? 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. 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.