Monday July 10, 2000

POPE COMMENTS ON WORLD GAY PRIDE IN ROME

VATICAN, July 10 (LSN.ca) - Speaking Sunday, one day after a march of over 50,000 homosexual activists through the streets of Rome, Pope John Paul made it clear that he wasn't impressed with their protest. Speaking from his study window in the Vatican, the Pope said: "In the name of the Church of Rome, I can only express bitterness for the affront to the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 and for the offense to the Christian values of a city so dear to the hearts of Catholics throughout the world."

"The Church, cannot silence the truth, because she would fail in her fidelity to God the Creator and would not help in discerning what is good from what is evil," he said. The pope then cited the Catholic Catechism which says that "homosexual acts are contrary to the natural law." He also noted that homosexual persons should not be subject to "unjust discrimination."

See the Vatican Information Service coverage at:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4866

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