While Pope Francis' ments supportg same sex civil unns were a drastic shift Catholic church guidance, U.S. Catholics have supported gay marriage for about a .
Contents:
- THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?
- GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
" It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns. " The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people.
The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "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.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law. The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred.
” While the Catholic Church do not nsir “homosexual orientatn” sful and of self, do have a very negative attu toward .
IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?
The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr.
GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
The Catechism further stat that “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty. ” The Vatin’s polici, however, state that those wh “homosexual tennci... A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.
” ment––ma rponse to a qutn about the acceptabily of gay men as prits––his statement is not official church teachg. Today, many men’s relig orrs and some bishops often make their own cisns regardg gay men as ndidat for the semary and prithood. Pope Francis ma news recently by voicg his support for same-sex civil unns – legal arrangements that give gay and lbian upl many of the same rights as married oppose-sex upl.
The statement stck many observers as a shift for the Vatin – which 2003 me out agast any “legal regnn of homosexual unns” – even as Francis did not change his long-standg opposn to gay marriage.