{"id":16116,"date":"2020-11-04T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/?p=16116"},"modified":"2020-12-16T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:58:11","slug":"vatican-not-yet-a-perfect-world-for-homosexual-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartacus.gayguide.travel\/blog\/vatican-not-yet-a-perfect-world-for-homosexual-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican: Not a perfect world for homosexuals after all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was to be expected: The Vatican denied the Pope’s statements on same-sex partnerships, recently published in a documentary, and made it clear that Pope Francis’ statements do not change anything in the church’s doctrine on homosexuals.<\/p>\n

In the documentary “Francesco” by Russian filmmaker Yevgeny Afineevsky, there is a 20-second sequence in which Pope Francis says that homosexuals “have the right to live in a family”. They are “children of God”.<\/p>\n

“You cannot throw someone out of a family or make their life hell for it. What we need is a civil association law, in this way they are legally protected”.<\/p>\n

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Denials from the Vatican…<\/h2>\n

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There is now an ‘official’ statement from the Vatican about the incident, which is often called “Moviegate”. In a letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State to the Apostolic Nuncios for forwarding to all Catholic Bishops’ Conferences, it says:<\/p>\n

“it is obvious that the Pope has referred to certain state regulations, but certainly not to the church doctrine, which he has affirmed many times in recent years”.<\/p>\n

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Vatican\u2019s Secretariat of State writes to bishops of the world (via nuncios) to brief them on Pope\u2019s civil unions remarks, to show that they refer to \u201cparticular arrangements of the state\u201d in respect of same-sex couples, and do not touch on \u201cchurch doctrine\u201d.<\/p>\n

— Austen Ivereigh (@austeni) November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n