German Catholic Bishops Back Blsg of Gay Relatnships, Defyg Pope Francis - WSJ

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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

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.

GERMAN BISHOPS GRAPPLE WH BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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.