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Vatican hosts screening of film that invented papal soundbite on civil unions

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.

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Vatican letter on pope’s civil union remarks assures doctrine unchanged

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.

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Vatican Secretariat of State provides context of Pope Francis civil union remark

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.

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Bishops: Pope’s civil union remarks won’t change teaching on marriage

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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