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Mainstream media goes gaga over Pope Francis and same-sex civil unions

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ROME, March 7, 2014– As I do most mornings, one of the first things I did today was put the search terms “Pope Francis” into Google . This morning the offerings from the mainstream media, and a fair chunk of the blogosphere, is along the lines of “Pope Francis leaves door open for civil unions!” Ah, there must have been another interview, I thought. Here we go again… Sure enough, yesterday  Corriere della Sera , one of Italy’s mainstream daily papers published another “wide-ranging”  interview with Pope Francis , and the usual round of arguments, disputes and triumphant whoops exploded over what the pope said, didn’t say, was mistranslated or misinterpreted or misrepresented as saying, in the press and the blogosphere. An English translation was provided  Wednesday by  Zenit , which gave the money quote as: Many countries have regulated civil unions. Is it a path that the Church can understand? But up to what point? Holy Father : Marriage is between one man and o

Priest who defended homosexual ‘marriage,’ transgenderism defrocked by Vatican

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April 18, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - An Argentinean priest who has been an outspoken supporter of homosexual "marriage" and gender ideology has been removed from the clerical state permanently by the Vatican 's Congregation of the Clergy, according to the Archdiocese of Cordoba , where the cleric was stationed. Fr. Alessio. The Archdiocese reports that the decision to laicize Fr. Jose Nicolas Alessio was officially issued on February 6, and that the priest is "excluded from all exercise of sacred ministry, in accordance with the norms that obligate priests that have been dismissed." "This dismissal is not subject to any appeal," the archdiocese added. Cordoba's Archbishop Carlos Jose Nanez began a canonical prosecution of Alessio in 2010 and temporarily suspended him from his duties, when the media published statements attributed to him in favor of "marriage" between people of the same sex. The affirmations by the prie

Bergoglio proposed civil unions for homosexuals as alternative to ‘marriage,’ claims John Allen

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Coat of Arms of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio , now Pope Francis, did in fact propose "civil union" legislation as a "compromise solution" on the issue of homosexual "marriage" in 2010, according to John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter , a newspaper that frequently publishes attacks on Catholic doctrine . Allen personally traveled to Buenos Aires , where he says that three different unnamed sources confirmed to him the truth of the claim, which was made by several newspapers following the election of Bergoglio in March, including the New York Times . Two of the sources, according to Allen, were senior officials of the Argentina Episcopal Conference, of which Bergoglio was the head until his recent election.  Both officials "worked with Bergoglio and took part in the behind-the-scenes discussions as the conference tried to shape its posit