Nah, that’s not the Church talking, it’s the Communist Guardian, taking the Church’s words and, of course, twisting them.
Homosexuality is a disorder, and homosexual acts are intrinsically evil and sinful. In brief, the Church teaches that homosexuals should try to change, but if they cannot, then they should refrain from homosexual acts.
Where the Guardian gets its twist from is that the Church teaches that homosexuals are not evil per se, but disordered. The evil is if they give in to their urges and act on them. But homosexuals should be helped, not attacked. The basic principle is “Hate the sin but not the sinner.”
So the newspaper got that screwed up. You’ve just described how Protestants also look at homosexuals versus homosexual acts. No problem there, then, and that seems the right way to interpret the Bible, too.