I don’t believe this
As usual, he was simply misquoted. /sarc
Slippery slope, Frank.
He's basically saying "go bugger yourselves, just leave us out of it."
That’s so christian of him. /sarc
This is consistent with rumors that he took a similar position when this issue was debated among the Argentine hierarchy. Let’s face it. This pontificate is a disaster. Pray.
If report is true then Malachi’s prophecy was right (whether some of the predictions were written by someone else or not).
Pope Francis, clarifies the point with these words: “The question is not that of changing doctrine, but of going into the depths, and ensuring that pastoral [efforts] take into account people’s situations, and that, which it is possible for people to do.”
Text from page http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/03/05/pope_francis_grants_interview_to_italian_daily_corriere_della_sera/en1-778625 of the Vatican Radio website
Always consider the source of the news.
In this case, a CNN blogger.
Nonsense!
Don’t even need to read the story to know this is bogus.
“The abomination of desolation, spoken of in the Book of Daniel...”
It's CNN, but still...
IB4TPWMA
I doubt that he said he would “support” civil unions - probably simply not oppose, since they are purely a civil matter and not something that will affect the Church or its teachings.
BTW, when “civil unions” were first proposed, they were meant to cover any two people living together in a household - could be a mother and adult daughter, for example, or simply two friends - in order to consolidate tax and other matters. That said, of course, the only people who would do them now are gays, and even though they can make of it what they will, it’s still just a civil law formulation and NOT called officially called “marriage.”
Here it is from the original:
Molti Paesi regolano le unioni civili. È una strada che la Chiesa può comprendere? Ma fino a che punto?
«Il matrimonio è fra un uomo e una donna. Gli Stati laici vogliono giustificare le unioni civili per regolare diverse situazioni di convivenza, spinti dall’esigenza di regolare aspetti economici fra le persone, come ad esempio assicurare l’assistenza sanitaria. Si tratta di patti di convivenza di varia natura, di cui non saprei elencare le diverse forme. Bisogna vedere i diversi casi e valutarli nella loro varietà».
He doesn’t say a damned thing about the Church supporting anything, to include “civil unions”. He says the State had various reasons for doing so.
And, of course, Freepers will buy into this line by CNN, hook, line, and sinker.
I do not believe for two seconds that a Pope said anything like this. Wait for correction.
Sodomy under what circumstances? Or does it matter?
Who would ever have thought than Francis would make us long for the days of Paul VI?
The gates of Hell did not prevail against even the Borgias, who were merely content to loot the temporal treasury of the Church, but Francis is making bold to loot its spiritual treasury with comments like this.
PLEASE! IMPORTANT VATICAN ANNOUNCEMENT:
This is not what El POpe said!!!
This was a bad translation from the Vatican translation team. Really, we consider it a job training program for Rome’s homeless. Be patient. We add new “translators” every week. They use Google translate and then try to smooth it out. You know how Google is! In the meantime, give thanks that these dear people are now off the streets.