The Vatin said Pope Francis' remarks were taken out of ntext but still nfirmed the pontiff's belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns.
Contents:
- VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
- PODST: THE VATIN STATEMENT ON GAY UNNS MAY HAVE BEEN SHED PAST THE POPE
- VATIN EXCLUS GAY UNN BLSG AS GOD 'N'T BLS S'
- VATIN RDALS FEND GAY UNN BLSG BAN AMID DISSENT
- POPE FRANCIS APPOTS NEW ARCHBISHOP OF BERL WHO FENDS GAY UNNS
VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
* vatican gay union *
”The Vatin’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. The note immediately pleased nservativ, disheartened advot for LGBT Catholics and threw a wrench the bate wh the German church, which has been at the foreont of openg discsn on hot-button issu such the church’s teachg on homosexualy. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for greater acceptance of gays the church, predicted the Vatin posn would be ignored, cludg by some Catholic clergy.
”In the new document and an acpanyg unsigned article, the Vatin said qutns had been raised about whether the church should bls same-sex unns a sacramental way recent years, and after Francis had sisted on the need to better wele gays the was an apparent reference to the German church, where some bishops have been phg the envelope on issu such as pritly celibacy, ntraceptn and the church’s outreach to gay Catholics after g unr prsure by powerful lay Catholic groups mandg change. The door has been slammed shut on the gay agenda, ” Donohue wrote on the League’s webse, llg the document “the most cisive rejectn of those efforts ever wrten.
PODST: THE VATIN STATEMENT ON GAY UNNS MAY HAVE BEEN SHED PAST THE POPE
The Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah issued a formal rponse Monday to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy n bls gay unns: "Negative." * vatican gay union *
”In the article, the Vatin strsed the “fundamental and cisive distctn” between gay dividuals and gay unns, notg that “the negative judgment on the blsg of unns of persons of the same sex do not imply a judgment on persons.
Esteban Plon, print of the Argente Feratn of Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals, said the document was proof that for all of Francis’ words and gtur exprsg outreach to gays, the stutnal church wouldn’t change.
“Sayg that homosexual practice — openly livg sexualy — is a s tak back 200 years and promot hate speech that unfortunately Lat Ameri and Europe is on the rise, ” Plon said. ” A siar note of exasperatn was echoed the Philipp, Asia’s largt Roman Catholic natn, where gay rights lear Danton Remoto said simply wasn’t worth to fight an old stutn.
VATIN EXCLUS GAY UNN BLSG AS GOD 'N'T BLS S'
An enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay rights. * vatican gay union *
”Other cril mentators noted the Catholic Book of Blsgs ntas blsgs that n be btowed on everythg om new hom and factori to animals, sportg events, seeds before plantg and farm Carlos Cz, a Chilean survivor of sexual abe who is gay and close to Francis, said the document was out of step wh Francis’ pastoral approach and was tone af to the needs and rights of LGBT Catholics.
VATIN RDALS FEND GAY UNN BLSG BAN AMID DISSENT
The Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church doctre. * vatican gay union *
In 2003, the same Vatin office issued a siar cree sayg that the church’s rpect for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. ROME — The Vatin says Pope Francis’ ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview, but still nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal Vatin secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to expla the uproar that Francis’ ments created followg the Oct. Instead, he favored extendg legal protectns to gay upl unr what is unrstood Argenta as a civil unn Francis was known to have taken that posn privately, he had never articulated his support while as pope.
The document, signed by Francis’ precsor as pope, says the church’s support for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. “More than a year ago, durg an terview, Pope Francis answered two different qutns at two different tim that, the aforementned documentary, were eded and published as a sgle answer whout proper ntextualizatn, which has led to nfn, ” said the guidance posted by the film, Afeevsky reunts the story of Andrea Rubera, a married gay Catholic who wrote Francis askg for his advice about brgg to the church his three young children wh his was an anguished qutn, given that the Catholic Church teach that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but that homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred.
POPE FRANCIS APPOTS NEW ARCHBISHOP OF BERL WHO FENDS GAY UNNS
” The church also holds that marriage is an dissoluble unn between man and woman, and as a rult, gay marriage is the end, Rubera reunts how Francis urged him to approach his parish transparently and brg the children up the fah, which he did.