Pope Francis says homosexualy is a s but not a crime and criciz 'unjt' anti-gay laws

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• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME AND CRICIZ 'UNJT' ANTI-GAY LAWS
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE BANS HIGHLIGHTS CATHOLIC 'CIVIL WAR'

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

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”Many gay Catholics and their alli outsi the church weled the pope’s remarks, though Francis’ opposn to gay marriage wh the church remaed nservative crics wh the church hierarchy, and pecially the nservative wg of the church the Uned Stat, who have for years acced him of dilutg church doctre, saw the remarks as a reversal of church teachg.

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

The ments shown the film are likely to generate exactly the sort of discsn the pope has repeatedly sought to foster on issu once nsired forbidn the church’s culture Granati/Corbis, via Getty ImagFrancis had already drastilly shifted the tone of the church on qutns related to homosexualy, but he has done ltle on policy and not changed teachg for a church that se s future growth the Southern Hemisphere, where the cleril hierarchy is generally ls tolerant of remark “ no way affects doctre, ” the Rev. Anton Spadaro, a Ju prit and close ally of Francis, told the televisn channel of the Italian bishops nference on Wednday remarks the documentary were keepg wh Francis’ general support for gay people, but were perhaps his most specific and proment on the issue of civil unns, which even tradnally Catholic natns like Italy, Ireland and Argenta have permted recent director of the documentary, Evgeny Afeevsky, told The New York Tim that Francis had ma the remarks directly to him for the film.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNG GAY MARRIAGE BANS HIGHLIGHTS CATHOLIC 'CIVIL WAR'

Alazraki had told The Tim that she did not rell the pope makg the ments to 2010, as Argenta was on the verge of approvg gay marriage, Francis, then rdal archbishop of Buenos Air, supported the ia of civil unns for gay Mabromata/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagAs pope 2014, he told the Corriere lla Sera, Italy’s largt newspaper, that natns legalizg civil unns did so mostly to give same-sex partners legal rights and health re benefs and that he uldn’t exprs a blanket posn. “You have to see the different s and evaluate them their variety, ” he said Francis’ remarks the documentary, explicly supportg civil unns as pope and on mera, had the potential for much greater impact on the bate over the regnn of gay upl by the church.

”Church doctre also explicly stat that marriage is between a man and a woman, a teachg Francis unwavergly Gibson/The New York TimFrancis’ precsors had also exprsed their opposn, though, to civil 2003, unr the pontifite of Pope John Pl II, the church’s Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, s doctral watchdog then led by the future Pope Benedict XVI, issued “Consiratns regardg proposals to give legal regnn to unns between homosexual persons. Jam Mart, a Ju prit who has wrten a book on how to make gay Catholics feel more wele the Church, and who has met wh the pope and served as a nsultor for the Vatin’s Secretariat for Communitns.

“The church nnot support the acceptance of objectively immoral relatnships, ” said Bishop Tob of the pope’s remarks do not mean he has altered church teachg on the subject, and Francis has a track rerd of makg enuragg remarks for gay people. Startg 2013, on a papal flight back om Brazil, his openns to gay people stunned the fahful si the church, and secular fans outsi of , who were more acctomed to doctraire sldgs about homosexualy and gay marriage.