ITALY: Pope Francis Slams Civil Unions Bill

ANSA reports:

Pope Francis said in a speech for the opening of judicial year of the Vatican’s Roman Rota tribunal that the Catholic Church cannot accept traditional families and other types of unions being given the same status.

The pope said the Church’s recent two-year Synod process on the family “told the world that there can be no confusion between the family as willed by God, and every other type of union.”

The Church has spoken out against the legalisation of same-sex unions in several countries, although the pope has repeatedly say gay people must never be marginalised.

The Italian parliament is currently examining a bill to regulate civil unions, including those between people of the same sex.

The vote on Italy’s civil unions bill is next week. Yesterday Catholic members of the Italian Senate introduced an amendment which would imprison gay couples who use overseas surrogates. Surrogacy is already illegal in Italy. (Tipped by JMG reader Andrea)