When did the vatican accept gay people

Some 32 million pilgrims are expected to descend on the Vatican this year for the Jubilee celebrations. The American pontiff has also not commented on his predecessor's decree. Pope Leo XIV. Vatican approves document allowing gay men to become priests in Italy A new document by the Italian bishops’ conference states that being openly gay no longer bars candidates from discerning the.

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Pope Francis approves blessings

Roman Catholic Church. Skip to content. Pope says priests can bless same-sex couples. Share Save. The Vatican reserves the right to remove, suspend and dismiss immediately any official and employee who publicly admits to being gay or questions the general policy of the Vatican towards homosexuals.

InPope Francis said "homosexual people have a right to be in a family". Three years later, Francis allowed priests to bless same-sex and "irregular" couples, under certain circumstances. But the Vatican said such blessings should not be part of regular Church rituals or related to civil unions or weddings.

Same-sex marriage. NurPhoto via Getty Images. The Vatican issued an apology, stating that the pope “never meant to offend or express himself with homophobic terms,” but Francis has been ambivalent in the past about gay priests and. It added that it continued to view marriage as between a man and a woman.

A provisional document published by the Italian Bishops’ Conference and approved by the Vatican cautiously opens the door for the ordination of openly gay men to the priesthood, while.

Vatican approves document allowing

Pope Francis. Coming from 20 countries, pilgrims are attending prayer vigils, masses and other activities this weekend - though they will not have a private audience with Pope Leo XIV. These included allowing priests to bless same-sex couples - a move that angered conservatives Catholics, notably in Africa.

The door only opens once in 25 years to mark the Roman Catholic Church's jubilee years. The New York Times and other media outlets reported that the Italian bishops, approved by the Vatican, allowed gay men to become priests if they remain celibate. AFP via Getty Images.

[11][12] Inthe Vatican foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, delivered a letter to the Italian ambassador to the Holy See, expressing "concerns" over a bill in the Italian.