Posted on 08/08/2015 6:46:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Pope Francis on Sunday stressed the importance of children having heterosexual parents, just a day after Rome’s gay pride march demonstrated the changing attitudes about same-sex couples outside the Vatican walls.
Addressing around 25,000 followers from the Diocese of Rome, the pope said the differences between men and women are fundamental and “an integral part of being human.”
The pontiff likened a long-lasting marriage to a good wine, in which a husband and wife make the most of their gender differences.
“They’re not scared of the differences!” the pope said. “What great richness this diversity is, a diversity which becomes complementary, but also reciprocal. It binds them, one to the other.”
Heterosexual marriages not only ensured couples’ happiness, the pontiff said, but were deemed essential for good parenting.
“Children mature seeing their father and mother like this; their identity matures being confronted with the love their father and mother have, confronted with this difference,” Francis said.
But the priests of Rome may face difficulty in bringing the pontiff’s message to their communities, which are increasingly showing their openness to same-sex unions.
Francis’ address came a day after the city’s mayor, Ignazio Marino, marched alongside tens of thousands of people at the march.
The event’s success marked the shifting attitudes in predominantly Catholic Italy about same-sex couples, who currently have no legal status in the country.
Politicians from the political left and right have however agreed to start debating the legalization of civil partnerships, although marriage and gay adoption remain off the table.
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Yes, they need good non socialist types who love a Democratic Capitalistic Republic.
Tomorrow is another day. Who knows what he’ll say then?
And where does this get reported?
AP?
Reuters?
AFP?
Fox News?
NYT?
No, it gets reported by the (LDS-owned) Deseret News.
[NB, I imagine it will be reported Monday by CNA, et al, but that’s besides the point]
Things to make you go hmmmmm.
Guess that liberal love affair with the Pope is about to end.
I don’t know...Dennis Prager (I think it was he) used to say that he was OK with homosexuals raising children, as long as it was a man and a woman homosexual raising them together.
That’s not going to be a long line of potential parents lining up, however.
My friend also used to say that what any child needs is just to know that one reliable person loves them, I think that might be true.
Hey, no flaming, just ruminating here.
That this even needed to be said.
That there is a contrary view at all, let alone that the contrary view is ruling class orthodoxy in the USA.
Gayishness is a vast right wing conspirsy to stop liberals from mutitplying.
Unfortunately, innocent children now being put up for adoption, under rule of law, are quite often being placed in the homes of sodomites.
All I have to do to understand the importance of a heterosexual marriage for a child’s upbringing is look at my granddaughter with her parents sharing in her upbringing. I’d like to include the grandparents but the primary family is the most important.
The celebrant speaks to the parents in these or similar words:
You have asked to have your child baptized. In doing so you are accepting the responsibility of training him (her) in the practice of the faith. It will be your duty to bring him (her) up to keep God’s commandments as Christ taught us, by loving God and our neighbor. Do you clearly understand what you are undertaking?
Parents: We do.
78. Then the celebrant turns to the godparents and addresses them in these or similar words:
Are you ready to help the parents of this child in their duty as Christian parents?
Godparents: We are.
Boob bait for the Bubbas. He’s invited his reliable toady Cupich to the Synod.
“My friend also used to say that what any child needs is just to know that one reliable person loves them, I think that might be true.”
It’s also true that all they need is a bowl of rice a day.
In light of the “whispers in the loggia” about a return of Rome to communion with the Orthodox Churches, it’s important for us Orthodox Christians to understand what even the extremes of the Latin Church believe about sacramental praxis. So...are you of the opinion that the innocent children of homosexual families do not deserve to receive baptism?
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