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Same-Sex Civil Unions 'Good and Helpful to Many', Says Pope Francis
Euro News ^ | 9/17/21

Posted on 09/17/2021 6:13:50 PM PDT by marshmallow

Pope Francis has ended his trip to Slovakia by speaking out on abortion and same-sex marriage.

During his flight back to Rome he said "abortion is homicide".

But he backed away from denying communion to politicians who support abortion rights.

He also spoke about marriage and said it is a sacrament between a man and woman, but added that same-sex civil unions are good and helpful to many people.

The pontiff said the Catholic Church “doesn’t have the power to change a sacrament as it was instituted by the Lord”, but he supported civil laws that try to help “those who have a diverse sexual orientation”.

He said: "If a homosexual couple wants to lead a life together, the State has the possibility to give them safety, stability, inheritance; and not only to homosexuals but to all the people who want to live together (in a civil union)".

“This does not at all mean that they have to be condemned: No, they are our brothers and sisters. But marriage is a sacrament, between a man and a woman''.

(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Theology
KEYWORDS: antipope; francisschism; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; romancatholicism
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1 posted on 09/17/2021 6:13:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

😳🥺😲😮


2 posted on 09/17/2021 6:15:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: marshmallow

I don’t understand this. Civil unions were something that people talked about before gay marriage was legal. Now the gay marriage is legal is there even an option for civil unions is are people still using that?


3 posted on 09/17/2021 6:16:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: marshmallow

Heretic!


4 posted on 09/17/2021 6:17:20 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: marshmallow

Knowing something is wrong and not doing what little you are able to do to oppose it (if you can do anything at all) — not talking heroic efforts here where someone tries to do things they could only possibly do by, just for giggles, the compelling power and prompting of the Holy Spirit — is the worst form of going along to get along.


5 posted on 09/17/2021 6:19:05 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

Pope Soros.


6 posted on 09/17/2021 6:19:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: marshmallow

The pope has never been married.
He doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about.


7 posted on 09/17/2021 6:19:52 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: Fai Mao

He’s waving merrily at people as they trot down the broad road that leads to destruction.

True homophobic people fear homosexuals more than they fear the Lord. A true homophobic individual would do everything they can to avoid conflict with homosexuals, make every compromise asked of them, and virtue signal their political correctness loudly in hopes of being left alone.


8 posted on 09/17/2021 6:22:54 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

The end times are upon us, folks...
Get right with God.


9 posted on 09/17/2021 6:24:15 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: bunkerhill7

He used to work the bars. He knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two.


10 posted on 09/17/2021 6:24:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob ("We the people" needs to be re-read, not reinterpreted.)
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To: marshmallow

Pope Francis does not honor or hear Sacred Scripture except through the lens of his feelings and experience. As such he dishonors the office he pretends to occupy.


11 posted on 09/17/2021 6:31:23 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: MurphsLaw
Ping

The Killer Bees - Bergoglio, Barron and Biden:

Bishop Robert Barron Does Not Want to Reverse Gay ‘Marriage’

12 posted on 09/17/2021 6:36:42 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

Red Pope!


13 posted on 09/17/2021 6:50:44 PM PDT by Az Joe ( "Everything woke turns to shit" ----- Pray, pray hard, pray hard without ceasing for America.)
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To: nickcarraway
Everybody is really pushing the envelope if they think it is "legal". This is just one example of what scripture says about it.

KJV
Leviticus 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination

14 posted on 09/17/2021 6:58:00 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marshmallow

End times?


15 posted on 09/17/2021 7:04:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

While he lightly reinforces the Catholic position on marriage Wherever that was being legislated to accept homo marriage he could have condemned it now dances around homo activity.


16 posted on 09/17/2021 7:06:47 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: nickcarraway
Civil unions were once something that legalized fornication outside of the sacrament of marriage.

Now they legalize both fornication and sodomy.

17 posted on 09/17/2021 7:22:55 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: nickcarraway

all about bringing in more contributions. RCINC is the oldest, most profitable multinational corporation on the planet


18 posted on 09/17/2021 7:23:21 PM PDT by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: marshmallow

Thus saieth the False Prophet.
Have another wafer and a sip of wine.


19 posted on 09/17/2021 7:28:04 PM PDT by smvoice (King Joege: He's really quite mad you know )
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To: marshmallow

So Sayeth Pope Gomer.


20 posted on 09/17/2021 7:32:35 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Whatever.)
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