Spanish bishop to Belgian bishops: The Church don’t have thory to bls gay unns | Catholic News Agency

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• SPANISH BISHOP TO BELGIAN BISHOPS: THE CHURCH DON’T HAVE THORY TO BLS GAY UNNS
• BISHOPS BELGIUM THORIZE PRAYER FOR MTED GAY UPL
• BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY COUPL, NOT MARRIAGE
• BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE
• BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

SPANISH BISHOP TO BELGIAN BISHOPS: THE CHURCH DON’T HAVE THORY TO BLS GAY UNNS

The Flemish-speakg bishops of Belgium have thorized a prayer for mted gay upl on the ndn is clear that is not equivalent to a weddg blsg. (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.

Members better, 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.

BISHOPS BELGIUM THORIZE PRAYER FOR MTED GAY UPL

” The church teach that gay and lbian people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but nsirs homosexual activy to be morally illic. Scholt said, there will be “an opportuny for homosexual upl to pray together, and others will also be able to pray for them. The bishops of Flanrs also published a lurgy for the celebratn of homosexual unns.

BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY COUPL, NOT MARRIAGE

The Vatin published an official clarifitn March 2021 that the Catholic Church do not have the power to give lurgil blsgs of homosexual unns. 20 published a document tled “Beg pastorally close to homosexual persons — For a welg Church that exclus no one.

BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE

The bishops of the Flemish-speakg part of Belgium also announced that each dce will appot a person as “ncrete rponse and fulfillment to the sire to give explic attentn to the suatn of homosexual persons, their parents and fai the nduct of policy. In July, the secretary-general of the Central Commtee of German Catholics (ZdK), said the Synodal Way — sometim referred to as Synodal Path — was “a nsc statement agast the current Catholic techism, which has been cril and disparagg of homosexualy sce the mid-1970s and still reproach homosexual activy as s.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “The number of men and women who have ep-seated homosexual tennci is not negligible. It adds: “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty.

BELGIAN BISHOPS PROPOSE PRAYER FOR GAY UPL, NOT MARRIAGE

“Even if the aim is to be pastorally helpful to homosexual upl, this is an error on the part of the bishops, ” Arze said. The bishops of Flanrs also published a lurgy for the celebratn of homosexual unns for the Flemish-speakg parts of the bilgual untry.

Arze cricized the bishops’ statement, cg s tle “Beg pastorally close to homosexual persons: for a welg Church that exclus no one.

“Holy Scripture prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, ” he said, addg that Church tradn, as reprented the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

“While persons wh homosexual clatn are to be rpected and not unjtly discrimated agast, they, like every Christian and ed every human beg, are lled to chasty, ” Arze said. He also ced the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teachg that homosexual persons are “lled to chasty. The CDF statement ma clear that blsgs n be given “to dividual persons wh homosexual clatns, who manift the will to live fily to the revealed plans of God as proposed by Church teachg.

The bishops of Flanrs said that the three-page document, entled “Beg pastorally close to homosexuals: For a welg Church that exclus no one, ” aims to “stcturally anchor [the Church’s] pastoral mment to homosexual persons and upl. The Flemish bishops’ text said that homosexual upl who choose to live “ lastg and fahful unn wh a partner” serve “appreciatn and support. 20 that the new document applied only to Belgium’s Flanrs regn, but noted that “At the begng of 2022, the [French-speakg] Dce of Liège published a brochure entled ‘Welg, acpanyg, rryg prayer the life project shared by homosexual persons’ — which was prented to Pope Francis July.

The Flemish bishops’ document appeared days after German bishops voted overwhelmgly  favor of a four-page document llg for “a re-evaluatn of homosexualy the Magisterium” durg a ssn of the untry’s ntroversial “synodal way. The Vatin’s doctral partment reerated that the Church rejects any form of “unjt discrimatn” agast homosexual people, and also regnized that those llg for blsgs of same-sex unns often do so out of “a scere sire to wele and acpany homosexual persons.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Belgium’s natnal synod synthis, published July, urged the Church to rpond to homosexual upl’ “requt for regnn (rual and social) based on an terpretatn of relatnships and sexualy more le wh the mandment of love. DECLARATIONof His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganòregardg the “Blsg” of Homosexual CouplCelebrated BelgiumWh great sndal for the salvatn of souls and the honor of the Church of Christ, the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium has approved and published a re for the “blsg” of homosexual unns, brazenly ntraveng the immutable teachg of the Catholic Magisterium, which nsirs such unns “trsilly perverse” and which, as such, not only may not bls them but rather mt nmn them as ntrary to the natural Moral law.

The bishop of Orihuela-Alinte Spa, José Ignac Munilla, remd the Belgian bishops that the blsg of gay unns go agast the teachg of the Catholic Church. The prelate unrsred his Sixth Content program on Rad Maria Spa that the Belgian bishops’ prayers for the blsg of gay unns are “clearly not patible” wh the claratn of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah on this issue that was published March 15, 2021. In a statement to the Associated Prs, Scholt said that ’s “an opportuny for homosexual upl to pray together and for others to pray for them as well.

Munilla noted that the Belgian bishops’ blsg clus “exprsns of mment” between the homosexual persons who receive and the mment of ecclial muny to them. It’s that she has no thory to do such a thg” as bls homosexual unns.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Th, ’s not about “unjt discrimatn” agast people wh homosexual clatns, but about reclaimg “the tth of the lurgil act. “You n bls people wh homosexual clatns, but not a unn that is not acrdance wh the sign of nature and God’s sign, ” the prelate strsed, bee “’s one thg to bls the sner and another thg to bls the s. The Flemish-speakg bishops of Belgium have appoted a ntact person for mistry to and wh gay Catholics and have thorized prayer for mted gay upl on the ndn is clear that is not equivalent to a weddg blsg.

The document, "Beg pastorally close to homosexual persons: For a welg church that exclus no one, " was dated Sept. The Flemish bishops said their pastoral approach mistry to and wh gay Catholics is one of "enunter and nversatn. "Believers who are a stable homosexual relatnship sire rpect and appreciatn, " they said.

A versn of this story appeared the Sept 30-Oct 13, 2022 prt issue unr the headle: Belgian bishops thorize prayer for gay upl. Bssels Cardal Jozef De Kel, pictured here 2019, was among the bishops who approved a blsg ceremony for homosexual upl. Belgium’s Flemish-speakg bishops have approved a blsg ceremony for homosexual upl, g several statements by Pope Francis to challenge the Vatin doctral office’s ban that said God “nnot bls s”.