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Correct. I was aware of him.
Same sex marriage was first legalized in 2001 in the Netherlands. Before that, it didn’t exist anywhere else.
It seems the pope sees a blessing as prayer ... if so then that kind of explains it.Just days after organizers of the second session of the Synod on Synodality in October said topics were not the focus of discussions, two prominent participants have publicly weighed in on the question of Catholics identifying as LGBTQ.
Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe and Jesuit Father James Martin on Sept. 19 published personal reflections on pastoral approaches to Catholics experiencing same-sex attraction.
Radcliffe, who served as a spiritual assistant at the 2023 synod assembly, has courted controversy in the past with statements on same-sex attraction. He wrote in the Sept. 19 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See, about being on “the synodal path with gay Catholics.”
The 79-year-old Dominican wrote that same-sex “desires,” like all desires, are “God-given” and need to be “educated” rather than denied. Radcliffe praised “mature gay Catholics” in “committed relationships.”
“Church teaching is already developing as it is refreshed by lived experience: gay people are no longer seen only in terms of sexual acts but as our brothers and sisters who, according to Pope Francis, can be blessed,” Radcliffe added.
Strong opposition at the synod
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Ahead of synod, prominent prelates publish on ‘LGBTQ issues’
Father Timothy Radcliffe and Father James Martin weigh in on same-sex attraction before the synod.www.catholicnewsagency.com
The bible clearly teaches against homosexuality ... committed or not.
It is only "accepted" if the parties don't act on it. Also, if they don't call it marriage.
There's a big difference between a blessing and a ceremony.
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I didn't say anything about blessing couples vs. blessing individuals.
Nope, not that long. See above post. I don't check this site all that often, maybe once a day.I suspect you're going to be waiting for a long time, Michie.
I think you did say this has been approved for generations or decades or something. This was only last year and a third of the bishops of the world said a flat 'NO' to it, another half of the bishops of the world wished they had the guts to say a weak 'no' to it, and it will be repealed soon after pope Francis moves on.
