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Contents:

• GAY OU AMBASSAUR : VATIN, IL FT CHOISIR
• FRANCE DROPS BID TO APPOT GAY VATIN AMBASSADOR, REPORTS SAY
• POPE FRANCIS MEETS WH GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR NOMEE
• LE VATIN A-T-IL UN PROBLèME AVEC L AMBASSAURS GAYS ?
• VATIN SPECTED OF REJECTG GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR
• FRANCE’S GAY AMBASSADOR-NOMEE POS SPECIAL CHALLENG FOR ‘WHO AM I TO JUDGE’ POPE FRANCIS
• VATIN REJECTS FRANCE'S NEW GAY AMBASSADOR
• VATIN MAY BE BLOCKG GAY AMBASSADOR APPOTMENT
• VATIN STALLS ON ACCEPTG AN OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, LRENT STEFANI
• VATIN REPORTEDLY REJECTS NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR, WHO IS GAY
• FRANCE ‘REFG TO BACK DOWN’ OVER SENDG GAY AMBASSADOR TO THE VATIN
• VATIN MAY CONFIRM GAY AMBASSADOR
• PAPER CLAIMS POPE REJECTED GAY FRENCH DIPLOMAT AS AMBASSADOR TO HOLY SEE
• FRANCE ‘STILL WAG FOR RPONSE’ OVER SENDG GAY AMBASSADOR TO THE VATIN
• VATIN REF TO ACCEPT NEW GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR
• VATIN ‘REJECTS’ GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR
• VATIN REPORTEDLY REJECTS GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR

GAY OU AMBASSAUR : VATIN, IL FT CHOISIR

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FRANCE DROPS BID TO APPOT GAY VATIN AMBASSADOR, REPORTS SAY

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POPE FRANCIS MEETS WH GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR NOMEE

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LE VATIN A-T-IL UN PROBLèME AVEC L AMBASSAURS GAYS ?

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France has abandoned attempts to appot a gay Catholic diplomat as s ambassador to the Vatin after a ne-month standoff, acrdg to French media.

VATIN SPECTED OF REJECTG GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR

“It’s ad, ” a source was quoted as move amid uncertaty over Pope Francis’s stance on homosexualy.

FRANCE’S GAY AMBASSADOR-NOMEE POS SPECIAL CHALLENG FOR ‘WHO AM I TO JUDGE’ POPE FRANCIS

Liberal Catholics seized on his statement on homosexualy early his papacy, when he told reporters: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? Philippe Levilla, a papal specialist and French historian, told the paper the Vatin did not want to be seen as homophobic.

“There’s a flagrant ntradictn between the openns Pope Francis is showg towards homosexuals and the refal to accept Lrent Stefani’s nomatn. A report the French satiril tle Le Canard Enchaé April claimed that Francis had a “very discreet” meetg wh Stefani, which the pontiff said his objectn to the appotment was not personal but an ditn of the Vatin’s disapproval of France’s 2013 gay marriage the same time, the Élysée palace said France would be stickg to s choice of ambassador.

Pope Francis met April 17 wh Lrent Stefani, the openly gay foreign service officer named by France to be ambassador to the Vatin. For example, an ambassador to the Holy See nnot be a divorced and civilly remarried person or someone livg an actively gay liftyle.

VATIN REJECTS FRANCE'S NEW GAY AMBASSADOR

Lrent Stefani scrib himself as both gay and a self-proclaimed vout Catholic, who regularly attends Mass. Khun-Delfe, who was openly gay, was habg wh his partner and support of civil unns. Son homosexualé en sera la nomatn l'ambassaur France Vatin vire à l'imbrogl diplomatique.

VATIN MAY BE BLOCKG GAY AMBASSADOR APPOTMENT

En e, selon l nfinc d'un ancien diplomate du Vatin à Europe 1: son homosexualé a été révélée publiquement, torpillant sa homosexualé révélée publiquement. Le choix pour ce poste cette personnalé qui ne che pas son homosexualé résulte "à la fois d'un souha du présint la République et d'une décisn du Conseil s mistr", souligne par aillrs l'entourage François Hollan. En 2007, la nomatn du diplomate Jean-Loup Kuhn-Delfe, homosexuel lui ssi, et actuellement ambassaur France en Grèce, n'ava pas abouti, n'ayant jamais reçu l'agrément du Vatin.

>> LIRE AUSSI - Et si vo visiez le Vatin d'un pot vue "gay"? Reports the French and Italian prs suggted the cisn was clearly nnected to Stéfani beg ntroversy uld tarnish Pope Francis’s image as beg more tolerant than his precsors over gay rights.

When asked by a reporter 2013 about the existence of a “gay lobby” wh the Vatin, he rpond: “Who am I to judge? ” His words have been terpreted as a sign of some acceptance of gay people a church that regards homosexual acts as a on a trip to the Philipp earlier this year, the Argentian pontiff cried efforts to “refe fay” and the stutn of marriage, ments that were seen as an attack on marriage equaly for gay men and print François Hollan (left) wh Lrent Stéfani at the Elysée Palace Paris.

VATIN STALLS ON ACCEPTG AN OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR, LRENT STEFANI

Stéfani told the archbishop that was not his mandate to renounce the nomatn, sce was a matter for the French ernment to Stéfani has been rejected bee he is gay, would not be the first time the Vatin has turned down a ndidate for ntroversial Vatin dismissed reports 2009 that had rejected three possible US ndidat for ambassador put forward by the Obama admistratn bee they supported abortn rights.

But there have been two ocsns the past 10 years when the Vatin has openly objected to ndidat – one om Argenta, who was divorced and lived wh his new partner, and another om France, who was gay and a civil unn wh another man. Pope Francis ma history when he said, of beg gay: “Who am I to judge? ” Now close Vatin-watchers say the pope is a plex diplomatic spot the se of a gay man France has nomated to be ambassador to the Holy nomated Lrent Stefani January, but so far the Vatin hasn’t accepted the appotment.

European media has speculated that this is bee Stefani, a Catholic who worked for years the French Embassy at the Vatin, is gay, though the French ernment officially is nyg any week a French ernment spokperson nfirmed that Francis and Stefani met April 18, Rters reported, llg “extremely rare for the Pope to get directly volved the namg of ambassadors.

VATIN REPORTEDLY REJECTS NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR, WHO IS GAY

Vatin spokpeople cled to ment to the Post on Thursday, and the French ernment has said ltle, but experts on Vatin diplomacy said the possibily of what they believe would be the first openly gay Vatin ambassador is plited.

Pl, Mn., who foc on the papacy, said France was “pokg a fger the eye of the Vatin” by appotg an openly gay man and then speakg – even off the rerd – when his appotment hadn’t clearly been approved. Faggli said he thought was hypothetilly feasible that the Vatin might accept a gay ambassador, but seeg the topic public vlat “the basic l of diplomacy.

”Another person very faiar wh the Vatin diplomatic scene, who spoke on ndn of anonymy bee the person still works the church, said the Stefani se embodi the different forc at play the Francis era when to the place of gay people. In the Catholic tellectual world [beg gay] is a non-issue. He also cled to nfirm historians’ asssment that there has not been an openly gay ambassador to the Vatin before.

FRANCE ‘REFG TO BACK DOWN’ OVER SENDG GAY AMBASSADOR TO THE VATIN

Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignyUSA, which works for gay equaly the church, lled “appallg” if Stefani’s appotment was held up bee of his sexualy. “It’s sultg to the sovereignty of a untry, to this gentleman particular and I thk will make a lot of people qutn the Vatin statement that Catholic teachg is open to gay people and that gay people are wele. VATICAN CITY -- France has reportedly whdrawn s nomatn of an openly gay man as ambassador to the Holy See, followg objectns om the Vatin.

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Peter's Basili durg Easter Mass on April 5, 2015 Vatin Cy, Origlia/Getty Imag— -- The Vatin has yet to approve the appotment of an openly gay French ambassador to the Holy See, promptg some to terpret the silence as a rebe of the man’s Holy See had yet to rpond to the nomatn of Lrent Stéfani, which was livered January, French newspaper Le Mon reported Thursday. Stéfani, a practicg Catholic, had served four years as the send-hight rankg French diplomat to the Holy See before beg head of protol Print François Hollan’s the Archbishop of Paris, Cardal André Vgt-Trois, reportedly supported the is not the first time the Vatin has apparently refed a proposed French ambassador for beg gay.

VATIN MAY CONFIRM GAY AMBASSADOR

The Vatin has for weeks failed to accept the appotment of an openly gay diplomat as France's new ambassador, leadg to speculatn that the Holy See is effectively rejectg him bee of his sexual French Council of Misters nomated Lrent Stéfani for the posn early January. European media note this would not be the first time the Vatin has refed an openly gay Huffgton Post reached out to the Vatin for ment but did not receive a rponse. Stéfani's appotment was supported by French Cardal André Vgt-Trois, who wrote to Pope Francis elaboratg on the diplomat's mers, acrdg to Italian newspaper Corriere lla had been hope earlier that Pope Francis might be easg the Roman Catholic Church's stance on homosexualy.

PAPER CLAIMS POPE REJECTED GAY FRENCH DIPLOMAT AS AMBASSADOR TO HOLY SEE

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On several ocsns, he also met wh gay and transgenr on a trip to the Philipp January, however, Pope Francis warned about an "iologil lonizatn" threateng "to stroy the fay" -- which many terpreted to mean same-sex marriage. A gay French diplomat who was nomated January to reprent his untry the Vatin has not yet been approved by the Holy See, raisg qutns of whether he will ever get the assignment, Le Mon reported on Thursday.

In 2008, France nomated another gay ambassador, and that also went Francis has sought to soften the Catholic Church's posn on the LGBT muny, famoly sayg "Who am I to judge?

FRANCE ‘STILL WAG FOR RPONSE’ OVER SENDG GAY AMBASSADOR TO THE VATIN

France is refg to back down over the selectn of an ambassador – after nomatg a gay man to go to Vatin Cy. It emerged earlier this month that the untry’s ernment had selected openly gay diplomat Lrent Stefani to head to the home of the Catholic Church – which remas opposed to LGBT rights. France prevly nomated a gay ambassador to Vatin Cy 2007 – but backed down after receivg no rponse om the Vatin.

Dpe a recent PR blz attemptg to bolster his gay-iendly image, the Pope is yet to lift any of the actively homophobic and transphobic polici of his precsors.

Some reports claim Lrent Stefani’s alleged self-proclaimed homosexualy is barrg him om nfirmatn, but others sist the French diplomat has no pann but is a practicg Catholic who nverted his 30s. The French Catholic news agency scrib the ndidate as a “discreet homosexual.

VATIN REF TO ACCEPT NEW GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR

The most likely answer relat to "Manif Pour To" — the popular protts agast same-sex marriage and adoptn by homosexual upl France —and Stefani’s possible sympathi for the mpaign. By leakg the lay and exaggeratg the homosexualy claims, serv to harm not only Stefani’s chanc of beg ambassador but also works to the triment of the mpaign and France’s pro-tradnal marriage movement. Pope Francis met France’s nomated ambassador to the Holy See, who is gay, and told him that the Vatin would not accept his appotment, a French newspaper has a meetg over the weekend, the pontiff allegedly ced his displeasure wh a ntroversial 2013 gay marriage law France as part of his reason for the cisn, acrdg to the report satiril tle Le Canard Enchâé Francis also allegedly said he did not appreciate the manner which France had tried to put prsure on the Vatin by nomatg a man – 55-year-old Lrent Stéfani – who French officials knew would be ntroversial given the church’s views on homosexualy.

VATIN ‘REJECTS’ GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR

The suggtn that Pope Francis would ny an unmarried gay man – who Italian prs reports has repeatedly been referred to as private his personal life – the chance to serve as France’s hight diplomat to the Vatin seemed to ntradict a statement he ma early his young papacy, when he said “who am I to judge? ” after he was asked about the existence of a “gay lobby” wh the Francis greets pilgrims and tourists i St Peter’s Square, Vatin Cy, for his weekly general dience on 22 April. Vatin Cy is keepg France wag – after the untry nomated a gay diplomat to be the French ambassador to the Vatin.

Back January, the French ernment selected openly gay diplomat Lrent Stefani to head to the home of the Catholic Church – which remas strongly opposed to LGBT rights.

The Vatin reportedly refed to accept the nomatn of the new French ambassador bee he is gay, a media report said on Friday. The Vatin cled to ment when asked if Stefani, who is openly gay, was beg rejected and if this was due to his sexualy.

VATIN REPORTEDLY REJECTS GAY FRENCH AMBASSADOR

French media wily reported that the apparent rejectn by the Vatin was bee of Stefani's homosexualy.