Peter Priller was a Catholic town chapla Germany until he fell love wh a male parishner, and was subsequently exmunited. Though many closeted gay Catholic prits live “secret societi,” Priller says there are other choic.
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- GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
- FRANCISNS GERMANY ELECT OPENLY GAY PRIT AS NEW SUPERR
- FRANCISNS GERMANY ELECT OPENLY GAY PRIT AS NEW SUPERR
- DOZENS OF GERMAN PRITS WILL FY THE VATIN AND LIVE-STREAM BLSGS OF GAY UPL
- GERMANY'S QUIET CATHOLIC REBELLN ON GAY BLSGS AND WOMEN PREACHERS
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
- CATHOLIC PRITS GERMANY BLS GAY COUPL, DEFYG POPE
- GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS SPE VATIN BAN
- 'LOVE WS': HUNDREDS OF PRITS GERMANY BLS GAY UPL OPEN FIANCE OF POPE FRANCIS
- GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
Holger Allmenroer is a Catholic prit who is also openly gay. He supports gay and lbian people, divorce and those who have remarried. Tradnalists may fd him alienatg but his mass are well attend. Is he the future of the Church? * gay priest germany *
Thoands of German prits and church employe have also signed a petn llg on the Church to extend blsgs to same-sex upl, while some parish have also displayed rabow flags outsi Catholic Church Germany is more liberal and wealthy than many other untri and the creasgly vol acceptance of gay upl will be hard for the Vatin to ignore, the BBC's Damien McGuns Berl marriage has been legal Germany sce 2017 and the untry has also banned so-lled "gay nversn therapy" for might be terted :Media ptn, Comg out to my parents: Dad 'proud' of gay Mlim sonMore on this story. In an terview wh MK-Onle, the official news webse of the Archdce of Munich and Freisg, Father Fuhrmann explaed why he went public wh his homosexualy.
The 300-member Francisn provce of Sat Elisabeth Germany has elected as s new superr Father Mark Fuhrmann, who a few weeks ago publicly me out as homosexual.
“If I am gay myself, then I want to show that I n also be part of the Church this mistry. Asked about the fact that his Francisn brothers knew of his homosexualy at the time of his electn, the new German superr said that “ was very good for me to know that this is very posive for the brothers.
FRANCISNS GERMANY ELECT OPENLY GAY PRIT AS NEW SUPERR
German Catholics challenge the Vatin's nservative teachg on gay blsgs and female preachers. * gay priest germany *
The Church's teachg on homosexualy.
Catholic teachg on homosexualy is summarized sectns 2357, 2358, and 2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Church teach that homosexuals “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy. As the techism explas, “Tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred and this clatn, which is objectively disorred, nstut for most of them a trial. The techism stat, “Basg self on Sacred Scripture, which prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred.
FRANCISNS GERMANY ELECT OPENLY GAY PRIT AS NEW SUPERR
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Providg further guidance, the techism says, “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty. And he is openly gay. That's why he speaks up for those who are often shut out of the Catholic Church: gay and lbian people, trans people, remarried divorce.
He says gay and trans people often believe God, but fd themselv shut out om the Church.
Recently, the bate about homosexualy the Church was reigned when prits a number of German parish rried out blsgs of same-sex unns.
DOZENS OF GERMAN PRITS WILL FY THE VATIN AND LIVE-STREAM BLSGS OF GAY UPL
" Allmenroer didn't see his homosexualy as a reason not to be ordaed the Catholic Church. He said he would personally e his fluence to stop me — simply bee I was open about beg gay. But drew notable phback Germany, which has seen discsn on hot-button issu such as the church’s teachg on homosexualy as part of a formal procs of bate and Moenkebucher, a pastor om wtern Germany who helped iate blsgs for same-sex upl last year, told the dpa news agency that the participants the new iative were spired by a public g-out by 185 actors Germany last iative is llg for all LGBTIQ who work for the church to jo up, and appealg to bishops to give s manifto public support.
In an terview wh MK-Onle, the official news webse of the Archdce of Munich and Freisg, Fuhrmann explaed why he went public wh his homosexualy. Asked about the fact that his Francisn brothers knew of his homosexualy at the time of his electn, the new German superr said that " was very good for me to know that this is very posive for the brothers. The March ban on blsgs, which Pope Francis approved, sparked dissent wh the church and surprised many bee he has been more nciliatory towards gay people than perhaps any other pontiff.
GERMANY'S QUIET CATHOLIC REBELLN ON GAY BLSGS AND WOMEN PREACHERS
The Pope has held meetgs wh gay upl and enuraged those who want to raise their children the church to do so. In 2013, he ma the now-famo remark “Who am I to judge” about gay people seekg God and tryg to live by the church’s l.
The church teach that beg gay is not herently sful but forbids same-sex sexual activy.
Acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center, a US-based thk-tank, 86% of Germans thk homosexualy should be accepted. Dozens of Catholic prits Germany plan fy the Vatin and bls homosexual partnerships, wh many set to live-stream the blsgs onle. In rponse, more than 230 profsors of Catholic theology Germany – and other untri where German is spoken – signed a statement prottg the cisn, the Associated Prs a statement, the group clared that the cree "is marked by a paternalistic air of superry and discrimat agast homosexual people and their life plans.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
"In view of the refal of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah to bls homosexual partnerships, we raise our voic and say: We will ntue to acpany people who enter to a bdg partnership the future and bls their relatnship, " the group said a statement.
GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
A group of dissentg prits has also piled a list of church servic that will take place natnwi on or around May 10, where prits will publicly bls gay upl. While the Vatin holds that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect and n be blsed, gay sex is "trsilly disorred. ”The mpaign lls for a “church whout fear” that shuns discrimatn – or threat of discrimatn – towards people same-sex relatnships, and acceptance that “LGBTIQ+ people, whether livg alone or a relatnship, are blsed by God” ncrete terms mands a fundamental revisn of “famatory” Catholic teachgs on homosexualy and non-bary people that reflect morn scientific and sexualy rearch, as well as an overhl of church labour the operator of krgartens, re hom and other facili, the Catholic church is one of Germany’s largt employers.
Last year he anised one a seri of special servic across Germany to bls same-sex upl, a mpaign lled “Love Ws” was rponse to a Vatin document last March, rtatg s teachg that homosexualy is a sful disorr. Aachen archbishop Helmut Dier told the ARD documentary that was time for the Catholic church to embrace a “climate of eedom om fear” and revise s terpretatn of homosexualy based on morn science.
That's bee for the lbian and gay Catholics here, after a lifetime the Church, this is the first time they have felt fully accepted. That's OK too, says Fr Kordschke wh a the Pope has said on homosexualyOctober 2020: Pope Francis tells a documentary-maker same-sex upl should be allowed to have "civil unns".
CATHOLIC PRITS GERMANY BLS GAY COUPL, DEFYG POPE
"Homosexual people...
"October 2014: Bishops at the Church synod drop proposals for wir acceptance of gay people that were backed by the 2013: On a flight the Pope tells reporters that gay people should not be margalised but tegrated to society.
Gay clergymen should be fiven and their ss fotten, he ptn, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? He's also gay. Every se was handled dividually, their prs spokperson said, and ncrete figur were not the Roman Catholic Church a culture of silence appears to surround this issue: gay prits keep quiet, and their superrs look the other way for as long as they n.
GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS SPE VATIN BAN
Bee the rultg secrecy is hard to al wh, gay prits meet at Pastorosa Munich. "It's a kd of self-help group for gay prits tryg to e to terms wh their extremely nflicted, tense suatn, " says Michael Brkschrö Catholic theologian and soclogist, who is an assistant profsor at the Universy of Munich, is a member of a workg group of gay theologians. He knows many gay prits throughout Germany who have anized themselv to groups remblg secret societi.
In Old Catholicism, celibacy is not mandatory, homosexualy is accepted, and women n be ordaed. Priller works at the "Rosa Alter" unselg service, found 2009 to help olr gay, lbian and transgenr folk whose felt inty as a man or a woman do not match their blogil inty. Priller says that olr homosexuals are often reluctant to go to nventnal help centers: "They're embarrassed, " he says.
'LOVE WS': HUNDREDS OF PRITS GERMANY BLS GAY UPL OPEN FIANCE OF POPE FRANCIS
He says: "Beg gay and gettg old is an tertg procs. Men particularly -- who until 1969 lived wh the fact that their sexual orientatn uld actually land them prison Germany -- are reluctant to this day to publicly acknowledge beg gay. And while he himself, as an openly gay man, was twice elected to the Bad Tölz cy uncil, Priller says that even today small muni and villag, g out n still be as hard as the origal article GermanPhoto - Rosa Alter.
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GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns. He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say. I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.