Conspicuous, as well - particularly to the more conservative members of the Catholic Church - was the warm welcome extended to Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel who was accompanied by his husband, the architect Gauthier Destenay, which for some analysts was a “powerful message” on the Vatican’s position on gay rights. [...]
“The Vatican has just taken a new step in its forced relativisation of homosexuality, which is what Pope Francis had attempted with the texts of the synod on the family,” Media-Presse, the Catholic information site wrote in an article in which, like other Catholic publications, it uses quotation marks to refer to Bettel’s “husband,” “companion” and “marriage.” [...]
“Francis has not changed church doctrine," the gay publication Advocate wrote. "Indeed, only the most wildly optimistic would expect him to do so. The Church continues to consider same-sex relationships unequal to heterosexual marriages (and sinful as well) and the concept of gender transition or fluidity as a violation of God’s plan for humanity,”
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