Pope Francis defends the civil union between homosexuals | World

“Gay people have the right to be in a family. They are daughters of God and they have the right to a family. No one should be discarded or discontented by it,” he says in the documentary “Francesco”.

“What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally protected. I defended that,” he said.

Watch the trailer for the documentary below:

The Pope’s speech appears in the middle of the film. He talks about topics that interest him, such as the environment, poverty, migration, racial and income inequality and the people most affected by discrimination.

Civil union, not marriage

Pope Francis has already shown interest in dialogue with LGBTI Catholics, but in general his messages try to welcome these faithful.

It has already given veiled signals that could be interpreted as an opinion favorable to the civil union.

When Cristina Kirchner was president of Argentina, the country legalized homosexual marriage. At that time, he was not yet Pope, but Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

According to a 2014 text from the agency “Religion News Service” (RNS), Bergoglio went so far as to say that he was open to accepting civil union as an alternative to same-sex marriage.

Filipe Domingues, a Vatican graduate with a doctorate from the Gregorian University of Rome, explains that when he was still a cardinal, Bergoglio was in favor of civil unions between people of the same sex: “He is against ‘homosexual marriage’ but he is of agreement that people in a stable union have rights This is not new. But he declared it in a documentary, like Francisco, for the first time “.

Domingues also points out that the Pope was more explicit now when speaking of “being part of a family.” “This is important,” he emphasizes.

In 2014, Pope Francis gave an interview to the newspaper “Corriere della Sera” in which he said that the Church teaches that marriage is between a man and a woman. According to the RNS agency, he said he understands that governments want to adopt civil unions for homosexual couples for economic reasons.

According to the “Corriere della Sera”, the Pope said that “it is necessary to consider different cases and evaluate each case in particular.”

The Vatican later clarified that Francis spoke generically and that people should not interpret the Pope’s words beyond what they say, according to RNS.

The film was screened at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. On Sunday (25) he will visit the United States for the first time during the Savannah Film Festival.

Director Evgeny Afineevsky finished filming in June 2020. The film talks about topics such as the pandemic, racism and sexual abuse. There are also geopolitical problems, such as the war in Syria and Ukraine.

According to the Argentine newspaper “La Nación”, the film shows a gay Italian living in Rome. He has three children and reports that he once wrote to the Pope and asked him to send his children to the parish, but that he feared that the children would be discriminated against.

The man claims that Pope Francis encouraged him to send his children to Church and never said what his opinion was of the family formed by homosexual parents and that, although the doctrine has not changed, the way of approaching the issue has changed. . radically.