Pope Benedict XVI had been living a life of retirement in the Vatican grounds since he resigned from the papacy February 28, 2013. His reign as pope was just under 8 years.
'We cannot give homosexual people the answer that their feelings are unnatural and that they must therefore live celibate lives. As a Church, we have to answer these questions in a new way,' said Bishop Helmut Dieser.
'But where is the sin in a young person who is in no sexual relationship, and is far too young to even contemplate marriage, to say, even publicly, ‘God made me this way and I am good?'
Pope Francis's repeated denouncement of the death penalty comes in opposition to the teaching of the Church throughout centuries, including the witness of Scripture, Tradition, and the saints.
'Thus, when a person experiences same-sex attraction or some form of gender dysphoria, such struggles do not change the biological fact of how God created that person, and it would be untruthful for the Catholic Church or our Catholic schools to pretend otherwise,' wrote the bishop.
'I’m Catholic when it comes to me. But there’s a lot of Americans who are not Catholic ... and you have no damn right to tell them what they should do with their body,' charged Ana Navarro.
Starring in a new feature length film affirming the LGBT lifestyle, Fr. James Martin says the Catholic Church must concede to the demands of the LGBT agenda.