German Catholics to bls gay unns spe Vatin ban

VATIN SAYS PRITS N'T BLS GAY UPL. WHY DID POPE FRANCIS APPROVE THIS CREE?

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" 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. 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.

VATIN'S NEW DOCTRAL CHIEF: CATHOLIC BLSGS FOR GAY UPL MT BE STUDIED

"The Vatin's orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse Monday to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy n bls gay answer, ntaed a two-page explanatn published seven languag and approved by Pope Francis, was "negative. "The note distguished between the church's welg and blsg of gay people, which upheld, but not their unns. Vatin says no change doctre on gays after well-publicized Francis mentsThe note immediately disheartened advot for LGBTQ 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.

-based New Ways Mistry, which advot for greater acceptance of gays the church, predicted the Vatin posn will be ignored, cludg by some Catholic clergy. Francis endorsed legal protectnsThe Vatin holds that gays mt be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is "trsilly disorred. " Catholic teachg holds that marriage, a lifelong unn between a man and woman, is part of God's plan and is tend for the sake of creatg new gay unns are not tend to be part of that plan, they nnot be blsed by the church, the document said.

BLSG GAY UNNS

Supporters react outsi Dubl Castle followg the announcement of the rult of a same-sex marriage referendum on May 23, 2015, as Ireland beme the first untry the world to approve gay marriage by popular vote. (Pl Fah/AFP/Getty Imag)Francis has endorsed providg gay upl wh legal protectns same-sex unns, but that is reference to the civil sphere, not wh the church. Those ments were ma durg an terview wh a Mexin broadster, Televisa, 2019, but were cut by the Vatin until they appeared a documentary last the documentary fudged the ntext, Francis was referrg to the posn he took when he was archbishop of Buenos Air and the untry's lawmakers were nsirg approvg gay marriage, which he and the Catholic Church Je Mar Bergogl stead supported providg legal protectns for gay people stable unns through a so-lled "law of civil habatn.