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Vatican: Pope Francis speaks again about the admission of homosexuals to seminaries

June 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 8

Pope Francis meets with priests of the Diocese of Rome at the Salesian Pontifical University on June 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 11, 2024 / 19:15 pm (CNA).
During a meeting Tuesday with some 160 priests at the Salesi… […]

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Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

April 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life." / Credit: Fran Orvich

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
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Bishop Barron in ‘frank disagreement’ with Synod on Synodality’s report on ‘development of moral teaching’

November 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 9

Bishop Robert Barron. Photo courtesy of DeChant-Hughes Public Relations. / null

Rome Newsroom, Nov 24, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).
Bishop Robert Barron has said that he is in “frank disagreement” with the final report of the Synod on Synodality’s cl… […]

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Vatican draws line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops

November 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 35

Cardinal Pietro Parolin. / Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CNA Newsroom, Nov 24, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican has informed German bishops in writing that the ordination of women and changes in the Church’s teachin… […]

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Views on sexual morality halt appointment of new dean at Italian seminary

June 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Philosophical-Theological University of Bressanone in Italy. / Credit: Ladislav Luppa / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

CNA Newsroom, Jun 27, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
The Vatican vetoed the appointment of a new dean at a seminary in Northern Italy, citi… […]

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Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference: God accompanies people with same-sex attraction

February 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 19

Pope Francis speaks to the media on Feb. 5, 2023, during his return flight to Rome from his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 5, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
On his return flight from South … […]

The Dispatch

Pope Francis clarifies comments on sin and homosexuality

January 28, 2023 Catholic News Agency 34

Pope Francis speaks at his general audience in Paul VI Hall on Jan. 18, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has written a letter to clarify his comments on sin and homosexuality from a recent int… […]

The Dispatch

‘Being homosexual is not a crime…but it’s a sin,” Pope Francis reiterates in new interview

January 25, 2023 Catholic News Agency 33

Pope Francis speaking at the general audience at the Vatican, Dec. 21, 2022. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Jan 25, 2023 / 08:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has reiterated that homosexuality is “not a crime” in a new interview published Wednesday.Th… […]

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After sex document at German Synodal Way is blocked, organizers vow to ‘take it to’ Rome

September 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 6

Bishop Georg Bätzing watches ZdK president Irme Stetter-Karp speak at the Synodal Way assembly in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept 8. 2022 / Synodaler Weg / Maximilian von Lachner

CNA Newsroom, Sep 9, 2022 / 09:02 am (CNA).
After bishops blocked a vote… […]

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Only the Holy Spirit will ‘hijack’ the Synod on Synodality, cardinal says at Vatican press conference

August 26, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

Cardinal Mario Grech speaking at the press conference in the Vatican on Aug. 26, 2022 / Vatican Media / YouTube Channel

Rome Newsroom, Aug 26, 2022 / 10:12 am (CNA).
At a press conference in the Vatican on Friday, two cardinals introduced the “… […]

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