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by bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | Chile, Church in Asia, Church in Europe, Church in the Americas, Civil unions, family, Hungary, Japan, lead, Marriage, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican | 0 |
As governments around the world push to legalize same-sex marriage, the bishops in those countries have been vocal in advocating for the Catholic Church’s position that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 7, 2021 | Civil unions, lead, News, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican, Vatican communications | 0 |
Pope Francis Monday night dropped in at the close of a screening inside the Vatican of a documentary which created an international media fiasco last year for inventing a papal soundbite on same-sex civil unions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 6, 2021 | Civil unions, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Paolo Ruffini, Pope Francis, Same-sex "Marriage", Vatican, Vatican communications | 0 |
Nearly a year after the Vatican’s media fiasco involving comments by the pope spliced together in a documentary to give the impression that he endorsed same-sex civil unions, the Vatican is screening the film for a group of migrants and refugees.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2021 | Cardinal Peter Turkson, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Church in the US, Civil unions, COVID-19 pandemic, Initiative for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Two Cardinals Wednesday defended a recent Vatican decree that restated the churches stance against the blessing of same-sex couples, by invoking the teachings of the church that the sacrament of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Annulment, Annulment process, Breakup, Civil unions, Divorce, From the Pope, News | 0 |
The potential loss of money and authority are often at the heart of the opposition against reforming the Catholic Church’s annulment process, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Civil unions, Francesco, Gay Catholics, Homosexuality, lead, LGBT Catholics, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
A letter sent from the Vatican to bishops’ conferences around the world seeking to explain the Pope Francis’s recent remarks on civil unions has argued that the pope’s words were taken out of context and that his position does not constitute a change in Church teaching on the issue.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Civil unions, News, Pope Francis, Vatican diplomacy, Vatican Secretariat of State | 0 |
The clarifications explain that the pope’s comments do not pertain to Catholic doctrine regarding the nature of marriage as a union between one man and one woman, but to provisions of civil law.
The post Vatican Secretariat of State provides context of Pope Francis civil union remark appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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 26, 2020 | Civil unions, Gay marriage, News, Picks, Pope Francis, U.S. & World News | 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 | Civil unions, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican communications | 0 |
On Wednesday, news broke of comments made by Pope Francis which appeared to support the creation of “civil unions” for same-sex couples. The remarks were …
The post A roundup of responses to Pope’s unravelling ‘civil unions’ comments appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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.
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