Francis has promoted same-sex civil unions in the past, making his strongest statement on the issue last year in the documentary film Francesco, in which he stated, “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that.”
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The Church has already considered the question of same-sex unions in civil law, notably in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (CDF) 2003 document “Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons.”
At that time the CDF, headed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, reiterated that “homosexual acts go against the moral law,” instructing that “all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
In conclusion, the CDF stated that the Church “teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
Ping
What say you, Mr. Chips?
Truth to power
Benedict XVI is my Pope and Trump is my President.
I think the answer for the Christian churches, independent of country should be, “You can write anything you desire into your constitutions and regulations, but don’t ever call it marriage. God created the single institution of heterosexual marriage as the earthy manifestation of the absolute unity and love He seeks with each person, and you have no right to corrupt its meaning”.
I was a whole lot more comfortable with the previous two popes. This one —- not.
Pope Benedict XVI is right; Francis in wrong.
THANK GOD FOR THE REAL POPE !!