Articles tagged Civil Unions

The real objective of the film ‘Francesco’ is to bring down Trump and elect Biden

The papal utterance has thrown the Catholic world into bewilderment and confusion. But Bergoglio is not worried about this. For him questions of doctrine or morals or spirituality are useful only instrumentally, in service of an objective that is always only and totally political.

Opinion

Antonio Socci

• Oct 27, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Pope Francis’s call for civil union laws requires faithful resistance

The break from Church teaching has caused confusion and Catholics have a right to reject errors.

Opinion

John Horvat II

• Oct 26, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Vatican press office orders silence about Pope’s same-sex union comments

An email from the Dicastery for Communication read 'for now we are not coming out with ANY news, either on the radio or on the web.'

News

Michael Haynes

• Oct 26, 2020Jun 14, 2022

Venezuela’s far-left leader uses Pope Francis’ backing of gay civil unions to push for same-sex ‘marriage’

Maduro citing the Pope's comments asked his country’s National Assembly to discuss same-sex 'marriage' during its next term

News

Charles Robertson

• Oct 26, 2020Jun 18, 2021

Bishop Schneider: Deception via hairsplitting – civil ‘union’ vs ‘cohabitation’

Every normal-thinking person understands the expression that the Pope uses here as a form of a cohabitation legally recognized by the state, as a stable cohabitation ('Convivencia') of a homosexual couple, and thus as a legal recognition of the homosexual lifestyle.

Opinion

Bishop Athanasius Schneider

• Oct 26, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Chaste same-sex attracted Catholics, feeling betrayed by Pope Francis, urge him to repent

Those who heroically reject homosexuality and choose day in and day out to live chaste lives are now offering poignant commentary on the harm inflicted by Pope Francis’s infelicitous remarks.

Blogs

Doug Mainwaring

• Oct 23, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Abp. Viganò: Here is what the Pope’s ambiguous statements are doing to the Church

And it is exactly this, in my opinion, that Bergoglio’s 'magic circle' wants to achieve: to reach the paradoxical situation in which the one who is recognized as Pope is at the same time in a state of schism with the Church he governs, while those who are declared by him to be schismatic for disobedience will find themselves expelled from the Church because of the fact that they are Catholic.

Opinion

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

• Oct 23, 2020Apr 29, 2023