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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis in a documentary released today at the Rome Festival signed by Evgeny Afineevsky says that homosexual people should be protected by the laws on civil unions: “Gay people – he says – have the right to be in a family They are children of God and they have the right to have a family. No one should be expelled or discontent over it. What we have to create is a law on civil unions. That way they are covered legally.
The Pope’s words come after a long journey by the Church in this regard. Only in recent years has the Church recognized the need for ad hoc legislation for gay couples. Several times several cardinals have spoken of the need to give order and legal form to the rights of people who are members of same-sex couples, without overlapping with the institution of marriage, or altering the relationship between parents and children with problematic legal constructions.
Francis’s words are not addressed to Italy and its legislation, but to the world. His is a broad discourse that wants to sensitize the Church itself in a delicate area and in which not everyone speaks the same language.
Among the most moving moments of the film, the Pope’s phone call to a homosexual couple, with three dependent young children, in response to a letter from them in which they showed their great shame at bringing their children to the parish. Bergoglio’s advice to Mr. Rubera is to get the children to the parish anyway regardless of trials. Very nice then the testimony of Juan Carlos Cruz, victim and activist against sexual abuse today present at the Rome Festival with the director. “When I met Pope Francis he told me how sorry he was about what happened. Juan, it is God who made you gay and in any case loves you. God loves you and the Pope loves you too.
