Major Catholic study challenges Church’s teaching on gay relationships
by Sarah MacDonald, Belfast Telegraph:
A major new study endorsed by 60 top international scholars, including former president of Ireland, Professor Mary McAleese, has called for an “urgent” change in Catholic teaching on gay relationships.
The authors of the study, which was launched on Tuesday, claim their findings disprove the traditional objections of the Catholic Church to same-sex relationships.
A spokesperson for the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, which produced the study, said it “should serve as the final nail in the coffin of biblical and other arguments justifying homophobia”.
Professor McAleese told the Irish Independent that ‘Christian Objections to Same-Sex Relationships: An Academic Assessment’ would challenge the “firm and baleful grip on Christian thinking of views which have marginalized same-sex relationships” and which have been used “to justify teachings which conduced to dangerous homophobia” and made “lives miserable”.
She added, “Not for the first time has the Church backed itself into a cul-de-sac. Not for the first time will it have to acknowledge that it got things wrong at huge cost to humanity.”
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