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Pope Francis Addresses Gay Marriage: Church Should Support Families With LGBT Children
http://www.ibtimes.com/pope-francis-addresses-gay-marriage-church-should-support-families-lgbt-children-1742369 - By Lora Moftah - December 08 2014 [extracts]While it is important to find ways to welcome gay Catholics, gay marriage is still not on the church’s agenda, Francis said.
Francis also addressed the issue of divorced Catholics, saying they were often treated as though they had been excommunicated.
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It took 350 for the Galileo apology to be issued. Some things take time. (And I'm still not sure what the actual status of Galileo is.)
Changes in Vatican structures are made and unmade as various Popes come and go. Permanent changes, OTOH, seemingly require many years before they become entrenched traditions that gain their own momentum.
IMO, we'll see. (...if we live long enough.)
Tom
Changes in Vatican structures are made and unmade as various Popes come and go. Permanent changes, OTOH, seemingly require many years before they become entrenched traditions that gain their own momentum.
IMO, we'll see. (...if we live long enough.)
Tom
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Personally, I think he has already shown himself to be suited for 'decent' leadership and presence on national stage. I'd like to do more here, but consider it likely he'll deliver another talking point we can use to revisit overview. He's more like John, than one in between who had trouble leaving Nazi training in confessional.
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The Jesuit pontiff, nicknamed "the people's Pope," has established a warmer, more inclusive style of governance
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"Sit down," the Argentine Pope told the young guardsman, to which the soldier said: "I can't, it's against orders."
The Pope replied: "I give the orders around here" - and promptly went off to buy a cappuccino for the exhausted soldier.
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He has dismissed and demoted cardinals, bishops and the Vatican secretary of state, and now Pope Francis's reformist zeal has claimed a new scalp – the head of his own private army, the Swiss Guard.
Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing some officials ...