The Vatin creed Monday that the Catholic Church nnot bls same-sex unns sce God "nnot bls s," while upholdg the church's welg and blsg of gay people.
Contents:
- VATIN SAYS PRITS N'T BLS GAY UPL. WHY DID POPE FRANCIS APPROVE THIS CREE?
- VATIN'S NEW DOCTRAL CHIEF: CATHOLIC BLSGS FOR GAY UPL MT BE STUDIED
- BLSG GAY UNNS
- 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.
"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'S NEW DOCTRAL CHIEF: CATHOLIC BLSGS FOR GAY UPL MT BE STUDIED
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.
BLSG GAY UNNS
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. 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.
"Francis told Televisa: "Homosexual people have the right to be a fay. "Speakg of fai wh gay children, he said: "You n't kick someone out of a fay, nor make their life miserable for this.
GERMAN CATHOLICS TO BLS GAY UNNS SPE VATIN BAN
"Prsur wh German churchIn the new document and an acpanyg unsigned article, the Vatin said qutns had been raised about blsg same-sex unns recent years and after Francis had sisted on the need to better wele and acpany gays the Rev. Jam Mart, a Ju and advote for buildg bridg wh the LGBT muny, said the Vatin note appeared to be a rponse to prsur wh the German church before a nsultative assembly to nsir btowg church blsgs on same-sex German church has been at the foreont of phg the bate on celibacy, ntraceptn and the church's outreach to gay Catholics, prsured by a powerful lay Catholic group mandg | Pope bars clergy om blsg same-sex unns:Pope bars clergy om blsg gay unnsA cisn by Pope Francis to bar Catholic clergy om blsg gay unns as a huge disappotment for many the LGBTQ muny and a sign the Pope may not be as much of a reformer as some had expected. Distctn between dividuals and unnsIn 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.
"This would be erroneo and misleadg, " the article 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. To spl nomatns over gay marriage, LGBT clergySister Simone Campbell, executive director of the U. " when asked about gay prits, has now signed off on a Vatin cree that prits nnot bls same-sex unns sce God "nnot bls s.
For others, 's further affirmatn of the church's teachg that "homosexual acts are trsilly disorred. Among the objects and persons that n be blsed by prits are gay dividuals — but wh a veat.