Guy marriage has no place in the Catholic church
Catholic Teaching on Marriage Will Never Change — It’s Based on God’s ‘Original Design’
— September 16, 2016
Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, a liberal Catholic, said he believes the Catholic Church will change its teaching on marriage and embrace homosexual “marriage,” his bishop, the Most Rev.
Francis X. DiLorenzo stated this week that the Church’s “2,000-year-old teaching to the truth about what constitutes marriage remains unchanged and resolute.”
Bishop DiLorenzo, who heads the diocese of Richmond where Kaine resides, added that the Church’s teaching on marriage “is a matter of justice and fidelity to our Creator’s original design,” and therefore cannot change.
“More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, and despite recent statements from the campaign trail, the Catholic church’s 2,000-year-old teaching to the truth about what constitutes marriage remains unchanged and resolute,” said Bishop DiLorenzo in aSept. 13 statement.
“As Catholics, we believe all humans warrant dignity and deserve love and respect, and unjust discrimination is always wrong,” said the bishop. “Our understanding of marriage, however, is a matter of justice and fidelity to our Creator’s original design. Marriage is the only institution uniting one man and one woman with each other and with any child who comes from their union.”
“Redefining marriage furthers no one’s rights, least of all those of children, who should not purposely be deprived of the right to be nurtured and loved by a mother and a father,” said the bishop.
