Msgr. Charles Pope: What Every Catholic Needs to Remember About the Pope’s Opinions on Civil Unions

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Pope Francis appears at the Wednesday general audience inside the San Damaso Courtyard of the Vatican Apostolic Palace on Sept. 16, 2020. (photo: Daniel Ibáñez / CNA/EWTN News) Cropped.

Whatever the Pope’s reason and motives for making his remarks in the interview, they remain his personal opinions.

Msgr. Charles PopeMany Catholics are once again grieved that the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has chosen to indiscreetly express his personal views on a critical moral issue of our day. Regarding same-sex unions he declared:

What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered, I stood up for that.

But this point must be emphasized — namely, that this is his personal view and cannot signal a change in the perennial teaching of the Sacred Scriptures and of the Church. The teaching remains clear that homosexual acts, along with fornication and adultery, are sinful and cannot be approved under any circumstances. Nor can any pope unseat the biblical teaching that marriage is the union of one man with one woman till death do them part, bearing fruit in the children God shall deign to send them. More on these teachings in a moment.  …

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