Vatican family review signals Catholic shift on gays

[MarcW]

Senior clerics taking part in a review of Catholic teachings on the family have called on the Church to adopt a more positive stance on homosexuality.

 

more at:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29603496

 

[zaf89]

How gracious of them to take a more "lenient" "stance" on my existence. 

[wildone]

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[Billy Martin]

Any institution that's around 2000 years old is slow to change. Add to the length of existence, the fact that the institution believes that it speaks for and acts of the behalf of the creator, then the word "slow", is a poor choice of words.

 

I do not blame the Creator, himself, for the wrongs of the church. No. For the Creator blessed us all with free will. It has been said that the rain falls on the just and unjust. The same is true with free will. We choose how we act. How we treat others. We, with our free will, decide whether to persecute those that are different than us. Free will can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be ghastly and obscene. The earthly Church is ran by men. Sometimes we have good, loving, and caring men in leadership and sometimes, we do not. Therefore, it's the unjust men that I blame for the wrongs committed by the Church.

 

 

Perhaps we should celebrate that the change is coming about in our lifetime and not have another generation feel rejected, abandonment, or killed for loving someone. That is what I choose to do, Celebrate.

[Bill W]

I think that Pope Francis' guidance is taking the church a step in the right direction.  We must still remember though that we, or even the Pope, are not going to win over every heart. 

[TetRefine]

Good for them, but I still will never go back to being part of their outdated social club.

[Aditus]

Free will. Yep. It's a step in the right direction. Still, I will not.

[Billy Martin]

Free will.

[zaf89]

Fortunately (for me, at least), pretty much all the Catholics I know (and I know quite a few) made this "step" themselves years and years ahead of the Church.