Two bishops have now spoken out favor of nsirg some form of benedictn for gay and lbian upl.
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- GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
- GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS BACK BLSG OF GAY RELATNSHIPS, DEFYG POPE FRANCIS
- GERMAN BISHOPS GRAPPLE WH BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
More than 100 Roman Catholic parish Germany held servic to bls gay upl, fiance of the Vatin’s refal to regnize same-sex unns. * german bishops gay marriage *
Gregor Podschun, the print of the League of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ), an official Church group that supports women’s ordatn, gay marriage, and abortn accs, said that blsgs of same-sex unns were “a mimum” and that “we need [sacramental] marriage for everyone. At the ncln of a nsultatn they sponsored on human sexualy, Germany’s bishops issued a statement which they affirmed homosexualy as a “normal” part of human velopment, and they labeled church teachg agast same-genr sexual activy a “hot topic”.
In a ncludg statement, the Commissn summarized the nsultatn’s discsn of homosexualy:.
“[T]here was agreement that the sexual preference of humans is exprsed durg puberty and assum a heterosexual or homosexual orientatn.
GERMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS BACK BLSG OF GAY RELATNSHIPS, DEFYG POPE FRANCIS
In the Church’s thkg, this means that any form of discrimatn agast homosexuals mt be rejected, as has long been mand by the Magisterium, and is also explicly emphasized by Pope Francis the Post-Synodal letter Amoris laetia. However, the qutn of whether the magisterial ban on practiced homosexualy is still timely has been a hot topic, jt like the qutn of the legimacy of g artificial ntraceptiv marriage and unmarried upl. The lg “is characterized by a paternalistic gture of superry and discrimat agast homosexual people and their liftyl, ” acrdg to a statement put together by the Catholic Theologil faculty at Munster Universy, published Tuday.
The Vatin lg is a setback for Catholics who had hoped the stutn would mornize s approach to homosexualy.
“The blsg of homosexual unns nnot be nsired lic, ” wrote the Vatin’s top doctral office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah. Italian Church Offers Public Blsg to Gay Couple Amidst Controversy via @BrebartNews.
GERMAN BISHOPS GRAPPLE WH BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
The Vatin argued that while God and the Church n bls dividuals, cludg homosexuals, nnot bls s, cludg sexual activy that tak place outsi of a valid marriage. The Synodal Way has proposed radil reforms, such as ordag prits, clarg homosexual acts not to be sful, and allowg all prits to be married. Flemish Bishops Snub Vatin Ban on Blsgs for Gay Coupl via @BrebartNews.
Church of England to Bls Gay Marriag Unr Bishop Rulg— Brebart London (@BrebartLondon) January 19, 2023. - A German Catholic bishop has publicly fend his support for a book of blsgs and r for homosexual unns.
Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Maz also suggted that Catholics wh homosexual clatns nnot all be expected to live chastely and the Church should adopt a pastoral approach that acknowledg this. “Que a few people who have homosexual attractns belong to the Church and are tly p the bt sense of the word, ” Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Maz wrote a lumn for his dcan newspaper that was also published on the dce’s webse, wh the headle “Don’t ignore science, ” on Feb.