Popes Francis and Benedict XVI have addressed the topic of same-sex marriage almost simultaneously. <\/p>\n
On his return flight from Slovakia, Pope Francis upheld the value of civil union laws for same-sex couples, but clarified that marriage is between man and woman.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Pope emeritus Benedict XVI is also addressing same-sex marriage. He complements Pope Francis's words with this profound text, difficult to summarize in a single phrase. <\/p>\n The note was written it in April. It introduces this book of Pope Benedict XVI's speeches on Europe which is being published in Italy. <\/p>\n The Pope Emeritus does not dwell on the moral aspects of homosexual marriage, but on its consequences for humanity. <\/p>\n Pope Benedict explains that up until today, all cultures considered the transmission of life resulting from the union of a man and a woman as natural; an idea, he says, that changed after the advent of the pill, which separated fertility from sex, and equated all forms of sexuality. <\/p>\n According to the Pope emeritus, the result of this distinction is that \u201ceach person becomes a planned product and ceases to be a gift. And everything that is produced can also be destroyed.' <\/p>\n Pope Benedict XVI says same-sex marriage raises the question of 'What is a human being?' Is it a gift given by God, or a product made by others. <\/p>\n He concludes by saying that in the same way that environmentalism recognizes that 'nature reaches a limit which we cannot ignore without consequences...man also possesses a 'nature' that is given to him, and that denying it leads to self-destruction.'<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n TR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 16, 2021. The Pope emeritus does not analyze same-sex marriage from a moral perspective, but reflects on its consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mOdfOywnADA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrobenedettoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrobenedettoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>'(You ask me about) laws that seek to help the situation of many people with a different sexual orientation. And it is important to help these people, but without imposing things that, by their nature, are not part of the Church.'<\/em><\/p>\n