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UK Liberal Catholic Newspaper abandon fight against ‘gay marriage’

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ROME , March 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Catholic Church in Britain, and presumably abroad, must abandon its fight against “gay marriage” and “make peace with the gay world and move on.” So says The Tablet , Britain’s “international Catholic weekly” magazine, sold across the country in Catholic parishes and often endorsed by the Catholic bishops. The fight over marriage, the magazine’s editor said, is largely over within the Church, with over half of Westminster Catholic MPs voting in favor of the government’s “gay marriage” bill last month. Citing a U.S. poll that found more Catholics than non-Catholics supported “gay marriage,” the editorial said, “These results rather scotch the idea that Catholics are mindless zombies who do whatever the bishops tell them to.” “There is no more mileage in this issue for the Catholic Church,” the editorial continued, “and the sensible course would be to put it on the back burner with the heat turned low – to make peace with the ga...

Rebellious UK’s top Catholic bishop endorses gay civil unions against Pope

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Image via Wikipedia According to The Tablet , the Archbishop of Westminster, England , has publicly expressed support for homosexual civil unions , a move that appears to put him at odds with a clear Vatican decree against supporting such unions confirmed by Pope John Paul II and then- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) in 2003. Archbishop Vincent Nichols The Tablet reports that, while acknowledging that marriage and civil partnerships are not equal, Archbishop Vincent Nichols stated in a press conference late last month: “we would want to emphasise that civil partnerships actually provide a structure in which people of the same sex who want a lifelong relationship [and] a lifelong partnership can find their place and protection and legal provision.” “As a Church we are very committed to the notion of equality so that people are treated the same across all the activities of life,” Nichols is reported to have said. “The Church holds great store by the value of commitment ...