It shouldn't seem so surprisg when the pope says beg gay 'isn't a crime' – a Catholic theologian explas

Contents:

• IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?
• IT SHOULDN’T SEEM SO SURPRISG WHEN THE POPE SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ – A CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN EXPLAS
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• BLSG GAY UNNS
• EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ‘EVOLVG’ ON GAY MARRIAGE?

Patrick Day Para Commtee’s cisn to allow a gay group to march the 2015 para unr their own banner. This was a remarkable shift om one of Dolan’s precsors Cardal John O’Connor who 1993 clared that to allow a gay group to march the para would be a slanr to the Apostle’s Creed. This clos a remarkable summer which a number of high-rankg Catholic prelat have signaled that Pope Francis’s more open posture on gay issu has permeated through the Catholic world.

And jt a few weeks ago, one of Pope Francis’s clost iends Brazilian Cardal Cláud Humm said an terview that he “didn’t know” whether J would oppose gay marriage. All this begs the qutn: is the Catholic Church “evolvg” on gay marriage? Don’t expect Pope Francis to e out support of gay marriage anytime soon.

As the archbishop of Buenos Air, he supported civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage durg 2010 natnal bate on the issue. In July of last year, he famoly said, “[i]f someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

IT SHOULDN’T SEEM SO SURPRISG WHEN THE POPE SAYS BEG GAY ‘ISN’T A CRIME’ – A CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN EXPLAS

Sce the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah ma the raw claratn 1975 that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred” the Vatin has ma abundantly clear where stood on homosexualy and issu surroundg , most notably same-sex marriage. In , they wre: “God do not love someone any ls simply bee he or she is homosexual. ” It says Church misters mt “wele homosexual persons to the fah muny, and seek out those on the margs.

Francis’s simple pastoral step isn’t breakg any new ground theologilly nor is tendg to change the Church’s polil stanc on gay marriage.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

" 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.

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

“Beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” the pope said an terview wh The Associated Prs on Jan. Francis’ long history of makg siar ments support of LGBTQ people’s digny, spe the church’s rejectn of homosexualy, has provoked plenty of cricism om some Catholics. Durg the first year of Francis’ papacy, when asked about LGBTQ people, he famoly replied, “If someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

In his recent terview, the pope said the church should oppose laws that crimalize homosexualy. The Catholic Church has nmned discrimatn agast LGBTQ people for many years, even while scrib homosexual acts as “trsilly disorred” s techism. Neverthels, some bishops around the world support laws that crimalize homosexualy – which Francis acknowledged, sayg they “have to have a procs of nversn.

In 2018, for example, German bishops reactg to the legalizatn of gay marriage acknowledged that acceptance of LGBTQ relatnships is a new “polil realy. Pope Francis recently revealed his support for gay civil unns, breakg om Catholic tradn. Followg Pope Francis’s announcement clarg support for civil unn laws for same-sex upl, which breaks wh tradnal Catholic valu that oppose homosexual relatnships, the lear has garnered both cricism and support om people all over the world.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Most recently, NBC reports that retired Philippe Bishop Arturo Bast mented that he “had very ser doubts about the moral rrectns” of the Pope’s stance on legalizg gay relatnships. “I am really sndalized by his fense of homosexual unn, which surely leads to immoral acts. ANTI-GAY GOP LAWMAKER VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT ‘REDEFINED FAMILY’.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? In the film, the pontiff said that gay dividuals are “children of God and have a right to a fay. While the lear of the Catholic Church exprsed his support for gay civil unns, other branch of the church rema adamant the tradnal Catholic valu.

BLSG GAY UNNS

GAY CONVERSION THERAPY OFFICIALLY BANNED IN VIRGINIA.

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

As a nsequence, Ain Anglins – still dwellg, seems, the heart of relig darkns, and not posssg the nate English gift for muddlg through – are not yet persuad of the goodns of homosexualy or of the Christian legimacy of blsg same-sex unns.