Pope Francis on gay Catholics: God 'do not disown any of his children' | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• POPE FRANCIS SHOWERS GAY MISTRY WH PRAISE DURG PRI MONTH
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FIRST GAY POPE
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• IS POPE FRANCIS GAY? – A TIMELE OF HIS PRO-GAY RERD
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'
• POPE FRANCIS ON GAY CATHOLICS: GOD 'DO NOT DISOWN ANY OF HIS CHILDREN'
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

The Italian news magaze Vatin Insir, as well as other Italian media outlets, reported that Francis spoke about gay men the semary to the Italian Bishops’ Conference durg a closed-door ssn. That stance puts Francis le wh his precsor, Pope Benedict XVI, who issued a document 2005 statg that men wh “eply rooted homosexual tennci” shouldn’t be allowed to study for the prithood. The two reali seem to be ntradictory if we nsir that Francis has exprsed publicly and shown his meetgs wh gays and transgenr persons an openns to who they are and how they live.

He said, “Who am I to judge?, ” embraced a former stunt and his gay partner Washgton, and hosted a transgenr man om Spa at the Vatin. Yet, the official teachg of the Catholic Church on beg gay is that “the homosexual clatn is objectively disorred” and same-sex upl nnot marry the Catholic Church. So while Francis’ words and gtur sometim seem to give the msage, “It’s OK that you’re gay, ” that msag seem to be ntradicted by the l of the church he erns.

The fact is that Francis has given no ditn that he wants to change Catholic Church teachg or l on beg gay or gay relatnships.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

So how to rencile Francis’ radil openns to gay people wh his church’s firm posn that beg gay or lbian is “disorred” and s disapproval of gay relatnships? “I have acpanied people wh homosexual tennci and also wh homosexual practic, ” Francis said durg an -flight prs nference returng om Azerbaijan October, 2016.

Conservativ say that acpanyg gay men and women should clu a rrectn of their liftyle; progrsiv say Francis’ acpaniment should clu a change doctre. Rome — Pope Francis has lled laws crimalizg homosexualy as fundamentally "unfair, " makg clear that the md of the lear of the Catholic Church, "beg homosexual is not a crime. Catholic Church teachg says that gay people mt be weled to the church and treated wh rpect and kdns, spe the fact that homosexual acts are nsired "trsilly disorred.

POPE FRANCIS SHOWERS GAY MISTRY WH PRAISE DURG PRI MONTH

Stat still have laws agast sodomy, spe the Supreme Court clarg them unnstutnal pope said that some bishops om untri that crimalize homosexualy support the laws bee they're part of the lol culture, and he lled on those bishops to unrgo a procs of "nversn, " orr to wele LGBQT people to their mistry "wh tenrns. Pope Francis has cricised laws that crimalise homosexualy as “unjt”, sayg God lov all his children jt as they are, and llg on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ+ people to the church. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalise homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s”.

Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. Francis quoted the Catholic techism sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalised or discrimated agast. Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg, while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human Tuday, Francis said there need to be a distctn between a crime and a s wh regard to homosexualy.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

Church teachg holds that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred”, but that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect. But he has ma reachg out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his pope’s ments didn’t specifilly addrs transgenr or nonbary people, jt homosexualy, but advot of greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church hailed the pope’s ments as a momento advance. Last year, Father Mart clared that church have a special duty to celebrate Gay Pri sce much anti-gay vlence has been “motivated by relign.

Participatg Pri events durg June is one way to live out the Catholic Catechism’s ll to treat homosexuals wh rpect, he proposed.

Catholics should celebrate Pri Month, he said, bee Gay Pri is “a celebratn of the human digny of a group of people who have been for so long treated like dirt. Jt last week, Father Mart asserted that celebratg Gay Pri is patible wh votn to the Sacred Heart bee both teach about the love of J. After the 2017 publitn of Father Mart’s book, Buildg a Bridge, Archbishop Chaput reproached the prit for failg to summon gay Catholics to “nversn” rather than simply askg for “affirmatn.

THE FIRST GAY POPE

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has clarified his recent ments about homosexualy and s, sayg he was merely referrg to official Catholic moral teachg that teach that any sexual act outsi of marriage is a a note Friday, Francis relled that even that black-and-whe teachg is subject to circumstanc that might elimate the s altogether. 24 wh The Associated Prs, which he clared that laws crimalizg homosexualy were “unjt” and that “beg homosexual is not a crime. ”As he often do, Francis then imaged a nversatn wh someone who raised the matter of the church’s official teachg, which stat that homosexual acts are sful, or “trsilly disorred.

”His ments llg for the crimalizatn of homosexualy were hailed by LGBTQ advot as a tone that would help end harassment and vlence agast LGBTQ persons. -based Outreach mistry for LGBTQ Catholics, asked Francis for clarifitn and prted the pope’s handwrten rponse on the Outreach webse late his note, Francis reaffirmed that homosexualy “is not a crime, ” and said he spoke out “ orr to strs that crimalizatn is neher good nor jt. ” “We are all children of God, and God lov as we are and for the strength that each of fights for our digny, ” Francis said, The pope said the Catholic Church should work to end laws crimalizg homosexualy.

” "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’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, has said.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS

John Pl also liked strong personali who were willg to take on polil and cultural el on abortn, gay marriage and other issu.

Progrsiv should remember that rdals om the Global South do not necsarily have progrsive views on the rights of women and gays.

IS POPE FRANCIS GAY? – A TIMELE OF HIS PRO-GAY RERD

He wrote about how Disney bankrolled mpaigns of Florida lawmakers who filed anti-gay legislatn while the pany publicly touted s mment to equaly, and how the DeSantis admistratn was dog behd-the-scen favors for Disney when the ernor’s mpaign was still gettg pany ntributns. Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough.

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space. The first gay pope For many of the same reasons that Clton has been lled the "first Black print", one uld argue that Pope Francis serv to be known as the "first gay pope". The Vatin's official posn on homosexually, found the notor document the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued 1986, still stands.

And so do s scriptn of homosexualy as "an objective disorr" that is "more or ls a strong tenncy towards an trsic moral evil". A style of openns and acceptance First of all, he is not aaid to e words like gay and lbian, rather than the psdo-clil "persons wh a same-sex attractn" term that's ed by many the Church (pecially those who appear doctrally rigid and fixated on the ss of the flh).

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

So while the pope has changed nothg terms of official law or teachg, he has -- a real sense -- changed everythg terms of attu and ethos, jt by his own personal approach to gay people.

Francis has done more than any pope sce the so-lled sexual revolutn of the 1960s -- when people started to beg intifyg more openly as homosexuals -- to promote the rights and digny of gays and lbians wh the Catholic Church. And this has eed more prits and bishops who would have been reful to appear as "gay iendly", even up to a few years ago, to imate the pope's style of openns and acceptance. Not judgg gay prits A lot of very good and rmative articl have wrten about how Francis has begun changg the way the Church se and treats homosexuals, exclively by his own posive example.

The qutn he was asked ncerned one of his close Vatin ais, a prit who had been disvered to be a homosexual liaison (or stable relatnship) durg service at the papal nunciature Uguay, and whether there was a "gay lobby" the Vatin. Reassurg those who stggle, while challengg the hypocr Though 's still nsired a tabu to speak of homosexualy among the Church's ordaed misters, Francis has begun -- even jt a ltle -- to break the silence.

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

First of all, to ease the nscienc of those clerics who have admted they are gay and want to ntue fahfully servg God's people. The attu the pope has displayed towards gay people n only be a strong affirmatn for the men whose very Church has told them they are serly and fundamentally screwed up.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

The Church, on the other hand, has been led at tim -- even relatively recent history -- by pop who would surely be nsired homosexuals by today's unrstandg of the term. 30, Francis will have appoted the overwhelmg majory of the future rdal electors, creasg the possibily that his succsor will reflect at least parts of that nsistory falls a few days before a major Vatin gatherg of bishops and laypeople where var issu will be discsed, like the role of women the church and the steps the church n take to better wele gay men, lbians and people the transgenr muny.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis cricized laws that crimalize homosexualy as “unjt, ” sayg God lov all his children jt as they are and lled on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ people to the church. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalize LGBTQ Uned Natns has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalizg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Francis quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church sayg gay people mt be weled and rpected, and should not be margalized or discrimated agast. In 2019, Francis had been expected to issue a statement opposg crimalizatn of homosexualy durg a meetg wh human rights groups that nducted rearch to the effects of such laws and so-lled “nversn therapi.