Why do you post garbage from a Catholic-bashing protestant website. And the following lie has been put to rest by more than one person that knows what they are talking about.
“Francis’s latest assertion about marriage is not consistent with having favored homosexual civil unions in Argentina, when he was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio”.
Very well put. I even went to look for it on the dissenting list. LOL!
Do you know anything about Renew America? It’s not what you say it is.
From the article you sourced:
>>Rubin’s ( the principle source of the claim) carry some weight, because he is the one of the two individuals who co-authored the only authorized biography of the current pope, entitled The Jesuit, published by Ediciones B in 2010. The biography was based on conversations with Bergoglio.<<
>>The claim has been seconded by homosexual activist Marcelo Marquez, who told the Times that Bergoglio “told me that homosexuals need to have recognized rights and that he supported civil unions, but not same-sex marriage.”<<
Why would Cardinal Bergoglio authorize a biography of himself if it had false statements about his support for homo civil unions?
http://www.gruppoemmanuele.it/on-gay-unions-a-pragmatist-before-he-was-a-pope/
“Bergoglio’s thinking was very clearly demonstrated both with what he said and in the message of his pastoral work,” said Roxana Alfieri, a social worker in the communications department of the bishops’ central office here.
“He didn’t want the church to take a position of condemning people but rather of respect for their rights like any vulnerable person,” said Ms. Alfieri, who sat in on the bishops’ 2010 meeting.
Cardinal Bergoglio was operating in one of Latin America’s most socially liberal countries. Though Roman Catholicism remains the official religion of the state and 76.8 percent of Argentina’s population is Catholic, only 33 percent cited religion as very important in their lives, according to a 2010 Pew study, and just 19 percent said they regularly attended mass.
While the archbishop’s support for civil unions was shared by some of the more liberal bishops in attendance, it was defeated by the majority, reflecting the broad resistance of conservative bishops.