Pope Francis Conmns Anti-Gay Laws, Says Homosexualy 'Not a Crime'

Contents:

• THREE MORE CHEERS FOR THE BOY WHO ME LAST: 36 YEARS ON, WE TCH UP WH STAR OF HEART-WARMG FRANCIS GAY LUMN
• WHO IS ANCIS GAY THOR OF THE IENDSHIP BOOK?
• FRANCIS MAY NOT BE GAY MUCH LONGER
• FRANCIS GAY MY WEEK; CARG FOR EACH OTHER IS SOMETHG TO BE PROUD OF.
• INSPIRATN OM FRANCIS GAY AKA DAVID MCLGHLAN
• POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'
• POPE FRANCIS ON THE ‘GAY MENTALY’ THAT HAS ‘INFLUENCED THE CHURCH’
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'
• POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS

THREE MORE CHEERS FOR THE BOY WHO ME LAST: 36 YEARS ON, WE TCH UP WH STAR OF HEART-WARMG FRANCIS GAY LUMN

After the accint, Alistair’s grandad David Allan, om Edburgh, wrote to our endurg, heart-warmg lumnist Francis Gay to share his grandson’s miraculo revery. Not only was Alistair, who lived the village of Clifford, Wt Yorkshire, up and walkg six months after surgeons saved his leg but he peted his school’s sports day, when his bravery spired Francis Gay’s Sunday Post lumn unr the heade “Three cheers for the boy who me last.

And, after readg a story tchg up wh another star of a Francis Gay lumn, Alistair’s proud mum Jackie, also om Edburgh, ntacted 36 years on to reveal that Alistair was now workg as a nsultant anathetist at Broomfield Hospal Chelmsford. “It amazed my dad – and perhaps Francis Gay at the time – that this ltle lad who’d been through so much was still keen to take part somethg like his school rac, ” said Jackie. Alistair had no ia his grandparents had wrten to The Sunday Post until his mum showed him a clippg of the Francis Gay lumn five years ago, much to his bemement.

Francis gay, of the iendship book well i believe his father.

WHO IS ANCIS GAY THOR OF THE IENDSHIP BOOK?

his son, or (fay member) not sure if ancis gay is the fay. And I uldn't believe Francis Gay was still wrg the wee stori that make you greet!!!! Francis Gay surely mt be a very old person by this time.

Francis Gay: Herbert Llie Gee (1901–1977), Eng. I thought was bee Francis was a satly name and Gay was to mean happy and upliftg.

FRANCIS MAY NOT BE GAY MUCH LONGER

Are you sure there was a mister and wasn't jt Francis Gay? He also ponred whether Francis Gay would e out of the closet and have his picture the paper. The answer is likely to be no sce Gay is a fict character whose name was chosen bee Gay was upliftg while Francis had a spirual ntext.

Gee began the Francis Gay lumn The Sunday Post. A few years later he started wrg the annual Friendship Book of Francis Gay. I wre the weekly Francis Gay lumn the Sunday Post.

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.

FRANCIS GAY MY WEEK; CARG FOR EACH OTHER IS SOMETHG TO BE PROUD OF.

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? ” on the issue of gay Catholics, has bee creasgly difficult to discern where he stands on the issue. ”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.

“Negative, ” was the answer, which Francis people who support gay rights and are close to the pope say he told them that he relented unr prsure om the ngregatn, a cisn he regretted and hoped to rectify.

Francis stunned the fahful and a secular dience more acctomed to sldg about homosexualy and gay marriage when asked by reporters about a prit who was said to be gay, he rpond, “Who am I to judge? ”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. 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.

INSPIRATN OM FRANCIS GAY AKA DAVID MCLGHLAN

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. He sisted that hostily toward gay people did not motivate the Vatin opposn.

More about Jason HorowzA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: More Mixed Msag Are Sent by Pope Francis On Rights of Gay People.

POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'

As the man who wr both the Francis Gay lumn the Sunday Post and the annual Friendship book, he requir over 600 stori a year, more than one a day. Jam Mart, a proment Catholic prit volved gay mistry and a nsultor to the Vatin's munitns partment.

While the Catholic Catechism stat that homosexual acts are "trsilly disorred" — and last year Francis approved a cree barrg prits om blsg gay upl, which clared that God "nnot bls s" — throughout his nearly long papacy, Francis has repeatedly tried to extend a warmer wele to LGBT persons. Francis Gay Quot (Author of In Diapers for My Boss). Francis Gay.

POPE FRANCIS ON THE ‘GAY MENTALY’ THAT HAS ‘INFLUENCED THE CHURCH’

The ntext was a nversatn Pope Francis said he had had wh a bishop who didn’t thk was a problem that several prits his dce were “openly gay” bee was jt an “exprsn of affectn. Neher the bishop nor the Bishop of Rome fed what was meant by “openly gay” — whether meant participatn unchaste homosexual practic or publicly intifyg onelf by his same-sex attractn and aligng onelf wh the “gay movement. ” Whatever the fn, however, the Pope clared, “In the nsecrated life and the pritly life, there is no place for that kd of affectn, ” meang, seems, no place for same-sex sexual activy, same-sex public displays of affectn, or affectn for the “gay liftyle.

“I say to the prits, gay relig men and women, ” the Holy Father forthrightly stated, “we mt urge you to live fully celibate and, above all, to be exquisely rponsible, tryg not to sndalize your muni or the holy fahful people of God by livg a double life. Concerng ndidat for the prithood or relig life, Pope Francis said, “Homosexualy is a very ser issue that mt be aquately discerned om the begng wh the ndidat, ” addg, “The Church remends that people wh this graed tenncy not be accepted to the mistry or the nsecrated life. For that reason, he said, we mt “very much take re of human and sentimental matury” when trag future prits and relig, and “be mandg, ” bee “ our societi even seems that homosexualy is fashnable, and that mentaly, some way, also fluenc the life of the Church.

” There, he was referrg to a prit who had been prevly ught homosexual activy whom the Pope implied “mted a s … [and] repented, sought fivens and received . “The Church, while profoundly rpectg the persons qutn, nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

’” The reason is bee “such persons, fact, fd themselv a suatn that gravely hrs them om relatg rrectly to men and women, ” and “one mt no way overlook the negative nsequenc that n rive om the ordatn of persons wh ep-seated homosexual tennci.

The first is wh regard to those who are engagg unchaste and sful homosexual activy or those who are livg or promotg a liftyle opposn to Church teachg. Likewise, those who support a “gay culture” — and look at a same-sex liftyle as somethg that should be celebrated, eher by livg themselv or enuragg those who do — simply are not thkg wh the md of the Church they have sworn a solemn oath to reprent.

POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

For one wh ep-seated homosexual tennci to bee a holy prit, for example, he needs much greater huy and has to overe many more obstacl than a typil heterosexual ndidate. ” Otherwise, he will be tempted to nclu that the Church is wrong about her nstant teachg on homosexualy, and therefore n be wrong on other matters of fah and morals about which she fively teach.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

The first was that the thors nied that most prits who molted boys uld necsarily be classified as homosexual; the send was that if there were a nnectn, there should have been a lear growth between prits self-intifyg as same-sex-attracted and higher rat of abe of boys, which they said didn’t exist. Pl Sulls, an important study last month entled, “Is Catholic Clergy Sex Abe Related to Homosexual Prits? 98) wh the crease or crease of homosexual men the prithood.

POPE FRANCIS PH BACK AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS VISS WH AIN LEARS

The study revealed that prits who engaged same-sex sexual behavr before ordatn were signifintly more likely (than heterosexuals) to ntue to engage siar unchaste behavr both semary and after ordatn; prits who intified as gay, bisexual or nfed, as well as those wh posive views toward homosexualy, were more likely to engage semary and post-ordatn sexual behavr than those who nsir themselv heterosexual or had negative views toward homosexualy; and if prits wh pre-ordatn same-sex sexual behavr did abe a mor after ordatn, was much more likely to be a male victim. The issue is not that the Church treats heterosexual and homosexual unchaste behavr differently — the Church nsirs both sful — but that the Church objectively treats heterosexual and homosexual attractns and “inty” differently, somethg that is offensive to “genr iology, ” which matas that same-sex attractns are merely “differently orred” than oppose-sex attractns. ”Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a Washgton Corrponnt verg health policy.