The Pope has called for same-sex couples to be protected by civil union laws, in a remarkable departure from both the Vatican’s historic stance on homosexuality and his own.
“Homosexual people have a right to be in a family,” the head of the Catholic Church says in new documentary ‘Francesco’, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.
They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it. What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that.
The pontiff’s comments in the film, directed by Russian-born Jew Evgeny Afineevsky, set him notably apart from his predecessors.
The previous pope, Benedict, famously compared the need to save humanity from homosexuals to the need to save the rainforest. Even before his papacy, Benedict went as far as claiming that the homosexual “condition” tended towards “an intrinsic moral evil,” in a 1986 letter to Catholic bishops.
By contrast, Pope Francis was named “person of the year” in 2013, the year of his accession, by LGBT magazine Advocate. Weeks earlier, American magazine Time had also proclaimed Pope Francis its “person of the year,” in an article lauding his “conscious and skillful” approach.
The latest comments from Pope Francis also mark a break from his own previous stance on gay marriage. While he was still archbishop of Buenos Aires, he opposed moves to legalize same-sex marriage in 2010. And in the book ‘On Heaven and Earth’, published in 2013, he said it would be an “an anthropological regression” for same-sex relationships to be equal to heterosexual marriages in law.
As recently as 2018, Pope Francis was also expressing concerns over what he termed “fashionable” homosexuality, while saying that he would not welcome gay priests in the Catholic Church.
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Pope = End of religion for first time.
Christianity is just pseudo Jewish intellectualism that was designed to destroy the Nature centred belief systems that were part of European heritage for centuries. When Christianity disappears, the Europeans might rediscover the ancient Nature centred belief systems of their ancestors, I say “might” because the Kalergi-Kudenhove Agenda is to replace White Europeans by population replacement and MISCEGENATION.
Don’t flatter yourself small brain…….Christ is the Only One who will save your unworthy soul
God As My Witness
Amen
Don’t flatter yourself birdbrain, your Jewish Messiah hasn’t been seen for 20 centuries and won’t be seen for another 20 centuries. The Jewish Bible is just pseudo Jewish intellectual infantilism for the brain dead. You should read about the Druid Colleges where knowledge that exceeded anything found in the Jew Bible was taught. All Jewish pseudo intellectual excrement should be consigned to the flames. Are there any people in:”New Israel: (former America) The Second Promised Land of The Jews, that do not have shit for brains?
Hi Anon.
Look at the painting of Last Supper.
Could U think out of the box 4 r sec.?
There is an answer.
13 guys eating & drinking. Hello?) It is fag club.
Same as on Church Str. in ultra liberal T r o n t o.
The whole Vatican is an enclave/fort for “flower people.”
Watch Your back side. They are coming. (Sodom & Gomorrah)