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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe judgment was issued rponse to qutns om some pastors and parish that sought to be more welg and clive of gay Fstaci/EPA, via ShutterstockPublished March 15, 2021Updated June 27, 2021ROME — The Vatin said on Monday that prits uld not bls same-sex unns, llg any such blsg “not lic.

”The lg said that the church should be welg toward gay people, “wh rpect and sensivy, ” but not endorse their Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, the Vatin’s doctral watchdog, issued the judgment rponse to qutns raised by some pastors and parish that sought to be more welg and clive of gay issue of clivens me to the fore recent years after the pope asked bishops to velop projects and proposals “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. Cardal Ladaria wrote that Pope Francis, who has stnchly opposed gay marriage the church, had given “his assent to the publitn.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

”In the Uned Stat, where more than 6 out of 10 Catholics support same-sex marriage, acrdg to a 2019 Pew survey, many gay Catholics and their advot mourned the announcement, and said would evably lead to more gay people and those who support them leavg the church. ”Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of New Ways Mistry who has been an advote for gay Catholics for four s, noted that “prits parish” were already celebratg such blsgs.

” when asked durg a papal flight om Brazil about prits who might be gay.

The Vatin later clarified that the pope believed that gay upl served civil protectns, cludg legal rights and health re benefs, but that his ments had not marked a change church Catholic Church nsirs homosexual acts “trsilly disorred. ” In 2003, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah led that the church’s “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

” That document, which was signed by Cardal Joseph Ratzger, then the prefect of the ngregatn and who went on to bee Pope Benedict XVI, sought to sway Catholic lawmakers as an creasg number of untri were ratifyg legal rights for same-sex the lg ma public on Monday, the Vatin said that Catholic teachg held that marriage between a man and woman was part of God’s plan, and that sce gay unns were not tend to be part of that plan, they uld not be blsed by the explag the lg on Monday, the Vatin said that relatnships volvg “sexual activy outsi of marriage, ” which the Vatin scribed as an “dissoluble unn of a man and a woman open self to the transmissn of life” did not follow the “Creator’s plans, ” even if those relatnships had “posive elements. In 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, ” the Vatin wrote, cg Pope Francis’ landmark 2016 document on the theme of fay, “Amoris Laetia, ” or “The Joy of Love.

“That le particular is gog to e tremendo pa and anger, ” said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignyUSA, a natnal advocy group for gay Catholics. ROME — The Vatin says Pope Francis’ ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview, but still nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal Vatin secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to expla the uproar that Francis’ ments created followg the Oct.