Vatican breaks silence, explains pope’s civil union comments By NICOLE WINFIELD “The Vatican guidance insists that Francis wasn’t contradicting church doctrine. But it doesn’t explain how his support for extending Argentine legal protections to gay couples in 2010 could be squared with the 2003 document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which says “the principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions.””
Oct 23 The Pope Francis documentary "Francesco" was supposed to be a bright spot for his papacy. But allegations that his comments endorsing same-sex civil unions were censored before resurfacing a year later has sent the Vatican into crisis mode. By @nwinfield