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by bcadmin | Jul 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Father James Martin, Gay ministry, LGBTQ, New Ways Ministry, News | 0 |
More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, German bishops, German Church, Germany, LGBT Catholics, LGBTI Catholics, News, Same-sex "Marriage", second | 0 |
Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Austria, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, Germany, LGBT Catholics, News, Switzerland | 0 |
Five Catholic women’s organizations in German-speaking areas have released an open letter calling for the Vatican to reverse its position that priests cannot bless same-sex unions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 17, 2021 | Associated Press, Belgium, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Same-sex "Marriage" | 0 |
A Belgian bishop has lashed out at the Vatican over its decree that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 27, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
When Pope Francis said gay people have a right to be in a family and that gay couples needed some form of civil law to protect their rights, he was not saying that gay couples should have a right to adopt children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, Latin America, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Across the globe, Pope Francis’s comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were received by some as encouragement for an advancing struggle and condemned by others as an earth-shaking departure from church doctrine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2020 | archbishop bernard hebda, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, Archbishop Michael O. Jackels, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Bishop David Zubik, Bishop Donald J. Hying, Bishop Michael Olson, Bishop Robert J. McManus, Bishop Thomas Tobin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis’s expression of openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights does not change church teaching on marriage as being between one woman and one man, said several U.S. bishops and dioceses.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
A Mexican television broadcaster confirmed Thursday that Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were made during a May 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2020 | Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, Catholic Church, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, lead, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Despite mounting doubt about whether Pope Francis’s bombshell remarks this week on civil unions in a new documentary are the result of clever editing by the movie’s director, a close ally from Argentina often dubbed his ghostwriter said the pontiff has always supported “civil coexistence” for same-sex couples.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis’s bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis often has expressed openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, Civil unions, Gay Catholics, Gay marriage, Gay ministry, LGBT Catholics, News, Philippines, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis’s endorsement of same-sex civil unions drew mixed reactions Thursday in the Philippines, Asia’s bastion of Catholicism, with a retired bishop saying he was scandalized by it while an LGBT group welcomed the pontiff’s remarks with relief.
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