The CNS enhances health and improves lives through innovative neurosurgical education, advancement of clinical practice & scientific exchange Get Involved Join Support Advocate. In the over 60 years since, our membership has grown to over 11,+ neurosurgeons worldwide. One of our founding members, James Gay, M.D., has documented the early days.
The goal from the beginning was to provide the best training to neurosurgeons and improve health around the world. The cardinal said on July 3, , that the Catholic Church's approval of blessings of couples in same-sex relationships "will remain" under Pope Leo XIV. (CNS/Justin McLellan). VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis reaffirmed that homosexuality is not a crime, and that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin, in a written response to a request for clarification about his remarks during a recent interview with the Associated Press.
Gay Lynn Richards MS, RN, MPS, CNS Gay Lynn Richards is a clinical nurse specialist and Regional Coordinator for the Sage Screening Program at the Minnesota Department of Health. Pope prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass. The statement came days before the launch March 19 of a yearlong reflection on "Amoris Laetitia" that will focus on the family and conjugal love.
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Under her leadership the EIB passed landmark regulations reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That is because a blessing "would constitute a certain imitation or analogue of the nuptial blessing invoked on the man and woman united in the sacrament of matrimony," it said, citing paragraph of "Amoris Laetitia," which reiterated the synod members' conclusion that "there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family.
The doctrinal congregation said the Church does not and cannot have the power to impart her blessing on such unions and, therefore, "any form of blessing that tends to acknowledge their unions as such" is illicit. In fact, the question of blessing same-sex unions arose from this "sincere desire to welcome and accompany homosexual persons" as indicated by Pope Francis at the conclusion of the two synodal assemblies on the family, it said.
A same-sex couple is pictured in a file photo exchanging rings during a ceremony in Salt Lake City. Gay Dillingham President, Board of Directors Gay has consistently juggled her parallel passions for the environment, public policy, and communication through film all in an effort to deepen our human experience and success while on this marvelous planet.
The doctrinal congregation said in its note that some church communities had promoted "plans and proposals for blessings of unions of persons of the same sex. Such blessings are illicit for three reasons, it said: -- In addition to such a blessing implying "a certain imitation or analogue of the nuptial blessing" imparted to a man and a woman united in the sacrament of matrimony, there is the nature and value of blessings.
As such, the doctrinal note makes a "fundamental and decisive distinction between persons and the union. Catholic Standard El Pregonero. This award-winning documentary became a tool for making change around end of life, drug policy and consciousness. Gay has consistently juggled her parallel passions for the environment, public policy, and communication through film all in an effort to deepen our human experience and success while on this marvelous planet.
Gay was Executive Director for the Livingry Foundation from The response to the question, "Does the church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex? This is so that the negative judgment on the blessing of unions of persons of the same sex does not imply a judgment on persons," it said. From she also chaired the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board in charge of environmental management and consumer protection for the state.
Declaring "the unlawfulness of blessings of unions between persons of the same sex is not therefore, and is not intended to be, a form of unjust discrimination, but rather a reminder of the truth of the liturgical rite and of the very nature of the sacramentals, as the Church understands them," the doctrinal office said. The Church teaches that "men and women with homosexual tendencies 'must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.
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The statement was a response to a question or "dubium" that came from priests and lay faithful "who require clarification and guidance concerning a controversial issue," said an official commentary accompanying the statement. The clarification "does not preclude the blessings given to individual persons with homosexual inclinations, who manifest the will to live in fidelity to the revealed plans of God as proposed by Church teaching.
Her appreciation for WildEarth Guardians started in the s and is particularly passionate about their Greater Gila Campaign after growing up under the open skies in a ranching and entrepreneurial Oklahoma family. The date marks the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "Amoris Laetitia" "The Joy of Love" , which affirmed Church teaching on family life and marriage, but also underlined the importance of the Church meeting people where they are in order to help guide them on a path of discernment and making moral decisions.
As such, it is illicit to bless any relationship or partnership that is outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open to the transmission of life, it added. The Vatican's doctrinal office says in a new note that any form of blessing of same-sex unions is "illicit," but that the negative judgment is on the blessing of unions, not the people, who must be respected. In this case, in fact, the blessing would manifest not the intention to entrust such individual persons to the protection and help of God, in the sense mentioned above, but to approve and encourage a choice and a way of life that cannot be recognized as objectively ordered to the revealed plans of God," said the doctrinal office.
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