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Contents:
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N’T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE MUNN
- DO CATHOLICS DENY COMMUNN TO GAY PEOPLE?
- MAY A GAY PERSON RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
- INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
- IN SETBACK FOR GAY CATHOLICS, VATIN SAYS CHURCH NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
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CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N’T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE MUNN
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DO CATHOLICS DENY COMMUNN TO GAY PEOPLE?
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MAY A GAY PERSON RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
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INFORMATN FOR GAY & LBIAN CATHOLICS
Anyone who has eely and liberately been volved homosexual activy, knowg is gravely immoral, and has not repented and sought and received the Sacrament of Renciliatn, is a state of mortal s.
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IN SETBACK FOR GAY CATHOLICS, VATIN SAYS CHURCH NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS
Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignyUSA, which advot for LGBTQ+ rights the Catholic Church, told NBC News the document was part of a trend Catholic dc of "makg statements that look like they're tryg to be helpful to gay, queer and transgenr people but that are really dog harm to the spirual, emotnal and physil health of our muny and to fai. ”The Roman Catholic Church has long held that beg gay isn’t a s, but beg a gay relatnship or havg gay sex is. They also nnot serve as wns at Catholic baptisms or, the guidance says that gay and transgenr people n participate the sacraments if they repent.
For gay, lbian, bisexual and queer people, that would mean endg a same-sex relatnship, and for trans people, that would mean livg as the sex they were assigned at birth, though the guidance not that trans people who have unrgone “physil chang to the body” are not required to reverse, acrdance wh Catholic doctre, the guidance stat that children of same-sex married upl n be baptized if they are raised the Catholic fah and tght that same-sex marriage go agast the church’s teachgs.