A group of Belgium bishops have created a proposed text for a prayer lurgy for same-sex upl, possibly vlatg a 2021 Vatin directive barrg church blsgs for gay upl.
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- BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY COUPL, NOT MARRIAGE
- BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE
BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY COUPL, NOT MARRIAGE
ROME (AP) — Belgian bishops on Tuday published a proposed text for a prayer lurgy for same-sex upl that clus prayers, Scriptural readgs and exprsns of mment, spe a 2021 Vatin directive barrg church blsgs for gay upl. * belgian bishops gay *
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(CNS photo/Franis Lenoir, Rters)The Flemish-speakg bishops of Belgium have created a prayer lurgy for same-sex upl, part of their effort, they say, to make the church more clive and document, tled “Beg Pastorally Close to Homosexual Persons: For a welg church that exclus no one, ” published on Sept.
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BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and SAMUEL PETREQUIN, Associated PrsROME (AP) — Belgian bishops on Tuday published a proposed text for a prayer lurgy for same-sex upl that clus prayers, Scriptural readgs and exprsns of mment, spe a 2021 Vatin directive barrg church blsgs for gay Flemish-speakg bishops strsed that the “moment of prayer” was by no means ak to a sacramental marriage, which Catholic doctre says is a lifelong unn between a man and woman. Rather, they said their proposal is part of the Belgian church’s effort to be more rponsive to s gay members and to “create a climate of rpect, regnn and tegratn. ” They ced Pope Francis’ ll for the church to be more welg to publitn of the text, first reported by the Dutch newspaper Nerlands Dagblad, marks the latt salvo efforts by more progrsive church to extend greater outreach to gays, led by the German church and s ntroversial “synodal” procs of dialogue wh the German lay.