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An enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay rights.

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VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’

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. * 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.

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 *

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.

VATIN EXCLUS GAY UNN BLSG AS GOD 'N'T BLS S'

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”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.

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 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.

POPE FRANCIS APPOTS NEW ARCHBISHOP OF BERL WHO FENDS GAY UNNS

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.

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