10/21/2020 11:50 AM
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Updated 10/21/2020 11:54 AM
In a historic change of position in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis encouraged
civil union for homosexual couples
, by ensuring that "they are children of God and have the right to be in the family."
The words of the Supreme Pontiff are collected in a fragment of the documentary
"Francesco"
, released this Wednesday in Rome, in which he reflects on pastoral care for the LGBT population (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals).
"Homosexual people have the right to be in the family, they are children of God, they have the right to a family. No one can be thrown out of the family, or make life impossible for that," says Francisco in the film.
The Pope went further and stated: "
What we have to do is a law of civil coexistence.
They have the right to be legally covered.
I defended that."
"Francesco", directed by Russian Evgeny Afineevsky, premiered this October 21 at the Rome Film Festival.
The film presents an approach of the Pope to various social problems, as well as the pastoral ministry towards those who live, in the words of the pontiff, "in the existential peripheries".
According to the
Catholic Information Agency
, the film includes a story of the Holy Father
encouraging a homosexual couple of Italian men to take their children to his parish
, which, according to one of them, was very beneficial for the boys.
Jorge Bergoglio was one of the biggest detractors of equal marriage in Argentina
, although he had already anticipated a change of position days ago, when he received a group of parents with LGBT children from the "Tenda di Gionata" association at the Vatican, when he assured : "The Pope loves his children as they are, because they are children of God. The Church does not exclude them because it loves them."
A few years ago, in 2013, the pontiff had surprised journalists who asked him, returning from Rio de Janeiro, if there was a gay lobby in the Vatican: "We must distinguish the fact that a person is gay from the fact that it is a lobby . If it's lobbying, not all are good.
If a person is gay and seeks the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge him?
"
Upon his return from Ireland in August 2018, he was asked on the plane what he would say to the parents of a homosexual son and he replied: "First, pray. Do not condemn, dialogue. Understand, make room for the son or daughter. Leave space for it to express itself ... I will never say that silence is a remedy. "
"Ignoring the son or daughter with homosexual tendencies would be a lack of motherhood and fatherhood. You are my son or my daughter as you are," he added at the time.
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