From Associated Press:<\/p>\n
The Vatican says Pope Francis\u2019 comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but still confirmed Francis\u2019 belief that gay couples should enjoy legal protections.<\/p>\n
The Vatican secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to explain the uproar that Francis\u2019 comments created following the Oct. 21 premiere of the film \u201cFrancesco,\u201d at the Rome Film Festival. The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday.\u00a0In it, the Vatican confirmed that Francis was referring to his position in 2010 when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires and strongly opposed moves to allow same-sex marriage. Instead, he favored extending legal protections to gay couples under what is understood in Argentina as a civil union law.<\/p>\n
[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong>]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n From Facebook (Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Franco Coppolo; roughly translated):<\/p>\n TO UNDERSTAND SOME EXPRESSIONS OF THE POPE IN THE DOCUMENTARY \u2032FRANCISCO \u2032<\/p>\n Some claims, contained in the documentary \u2032\u2032Francisco \u2032\u2032 by screenwriter Evgeny Afinevsky, have sparked various reactions and interpretations in past days. Therefore some useful elements are offered, with the desire to favor an appropriate understanding of the words of the Holy Father.<\/p>\n More than a year ago, during an interview, Pope Francis answered two different questions at two different times that, in the aforementioned documentary, were edited and published as a single answer without proper contextualization, which has led to confusion. The Holy Father had first made a pastoral reference about the need for a son or daughter with homosexual guidance to never be discriminated against within the family. They refer to the words: \u2032\u2032Gay people have the right to be in family; they are children of God, they are entitled to a family You can’t kick anyone out of family or make life impossible for that reason.”<\/p>\n The following paragraph of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Amoris Laetitia<\/em> family (2016) can illuminate such expressions: \u2032\u2032With sinodal parents, I have taken into consideration the situation of families living the experience of having in their sinus to people with gay tendencies, an experience nothing easy for parents or their children. Therefore, we wish first and foremost to reiterate that everyone, regardless of their sexual tendency, should be respected in their dignity and received with respect, seeking to avoid \u2032\u2032any sign of unjust discrimination,” and particularly any form of aggression and violence. As far as families are concerned, it is for their part to ensure respectful accompaniment, so that those who manifest a gay trend can count on the help they need to fully understand and realize the will of God in their life (#250).<\/p>\n A successive question from the interview was instead inherent in a local law ten years ago in Argentina about \u2032\u2032 equal same-sex couples marriages \u2032\u2032 and to the opposition of the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires about it. Pope Francis has affirmed that \u2032\u2032it is incongruous to talk about gay marriage,” adding that, in that same context, he had discussed the right of these people to have some legal coverage: \u2032\u2032What we need to do is a civil-law coexistence; they have the right to be legally covered. I defended that.”<\/p>\n The Holy Father had expressed himself like this during a 2014 interview: \u2032\u2032Marriage is between a man and a woman. Secular States want to justify civil unions to regulate various situations of coexistence, driven by the demand to regulate economic aspects among people, such as ensuring healthcare. These are coexistence covenants of different nature, of which I would not know how to give a cast of different forms. It is necessary to see the various cases and evaluate them in their variety.”<\/p>\n Therefore it is clear that Pope Francis has referred to certain state provisions, certainly not the doctrine of the Church, many times reaffirmed over the years.<\/p>\n From Associated Press: The Vatican says Pope Francis\u2019 comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}