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HEREPOSTED ON MARCH 11, 2014 BY CATHOLIC4LIFE
Pope to stop condemning same-sex civil partnerships hints leading cardinal in move which could be step towards Catholic gαy marriage!!
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the pontiff wants same-sex unions studied
He said on U.S TV that Pope Francis wants to know what’s driving them.
Pope Francis has suggested that the Vatican could support gαy civil unions in the future, according to one of the church’s most senior cardinals.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that the pontiff wants the Catholic Church to study same-sex unions, ‘rather than condemn them’.
Cardinal Dolan told American television that Francis wants church leaders to ‘look into it and see the reasons that have driven them.’
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Pope Francis – pictured holding his weekly general audience on March 5, 2014, in Vatican City – wants the Catholic Church to study same-sex unions rather than condemn them
Debate: Archbishop Dolan said his own view was that gαy unions could ‘water down’ the symbolic meaning of traditional marriage
‘It wasn’t as if he came out and approved them,’ Dolan told NBC on Sunday. ‘He said, “Rather than quickly condemn them, let’s just ask the questions as to why that has appealed to certain people.”’
In an interview to mark his first year in the church’s top job, Pope Francis last week reaffirmed the Vatican’s opposition to gαy marriage but indicated that some types of civil unions could be acceptable to the church.
The Pope restated the church’s teaching that ‘marriage is between a man and a woman,’ but added ‘We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety.’
Cardinal Dolan, pictured here with Barack Obama in New York in 2012, told American television that Pope Francis wants church leaders to ‘look into same sex unions and see the reasons that have driven them’