Pope Francis has warned that the church must be careful to not
alienate the children of same-sex couples and children with parents who have
separated or it will risk turning them away from the Catholic faith.
‘On an educational level, gay unions raise challenges for us today
which for us are sometimes difficult to understand,' Pope Francis said in a
speech to the Catholic women’s Union of Superiors General in November that has
only now been published in the Italian media.
‘The number of children in schools whose parents have separated is
very high,’ Pope Francis said in the speech.
‘I remember a case in which a sad little girl confessed to her
teacher: “my mother's girlfriend doesn't love me”.’
Pope Francis said that a greater diversity in people’s family
arrangements posed the question to the church and Catholic educators of, ‘how
can we proclaim Christ to a generation that is changing?’
‘We must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to
them.’
Pope
Francis began a year long consultation with the global Catholic community into
how Catholics should approach a range of moral issues including homosexuality
and same-sex relationships in October last year – shortly before he made the
speech to the Union of Superiors General.
Among the questions for parishes around same-sex couples are, ‘What
pastoral attention can be given to people who have chosen to live in [same-sex
unions]?’
‘In the case of unions of persons of the same sex who have adopted
children, what can be done pastorally in light of transmitting the faith?’
The Union of Superiors General is the highest women's organization
in the Catholic Church.
I do so hope that the ordinary people support our Pope, because the conservative bishops will not!
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