Vatican: Gay people have 'gifts' to offer the Church

Vatican: Gay people have 'gifts' to offer the Church
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In its midterm report from the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, the Vatican declared that gay people have gifts to offer the Christian community and said accepting homosexuality is "an important educative challenge."

While the report encouraged Catholic Church leaders not to teach against Church doctrine, nor to allow "outside organizations [to] threaten the Church or its priests into changing their ideology," the Washington Times reports, the document's language was was hailed by Catholic gay-rights groups for its "less judgmental and more compassionate language than that seen in Vatican statements prior to the 2013 election of Pope Francis."

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Teresa Mull