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Furthermore, it's not clear the Pope turned specifically away from the vatican, as the video shows him alternating from. The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See announced on Tuesday, June 1, that it was displaying the flag LGBT “Pride” flag for the month of June, which is celebrated as LGBT “Pride” month.

Skip to content. Share Save. However, the claim is false; the flag, which can be seen on one side of the corridor while the pope is busy greeting people on the other, is Italy’s pacifist emblem, which shares rainbow colours but. Same-sex marriage.

The door only opens once in 25 years to mark the Roman Catholic Church's jubilee years. Coming from 20 countries, pilgrims are gay prayer vigils, masses and other activities this weekend - though they will not have a private audience with Pope Leo XIV.

These included allowing priests to bless same-sex couples - a move that angered conservatives Catholics, notably in Africa. InPope Francis said "homosexual people have a right to be in a family". Roman Catholic Church. The American pontiff has also not commented on his predecessor's decree.

Pope Leo XIV. Following Pope Leo XIV’s ascension to the papacy, social media posts have claimed that he snubbed an LGBTQ pride flag waved at him while he walked down a corridor greeting well-wishers. For the first time in history, a rainbow pride cross was officially processed into the heart of the Vatican after hundreds of LGBTQ Catholics attended mass in St.

Peter’s Basilica, with the blessing of Pope Leo, who personally encouraged the vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Francesco Savino, to celebrate with them. Some 32 million pilgrims are expected to descend on the Vatican this year for the Jubilee celebrations.

But the Vatican said such blessings should not be part of regular Church rituals or related to civil unions or weddings. Pope says priests can bless same-sex couples. Three years later, Francis allowed priests to bless same-sex and "irregular" couples, under certain circumstances.

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No, that's not true: It's not a Pride flag but a flag commonly flown at Italian peace marches that says "PACE," which is Italian for "peace". Not Pride Flag Does a video posted to social media show Pope Leo XIV turning away from a Pride flag as he moves through a receiving line?

It added that it continued to view marriage as between a man and a woman. Pope Francis. At the start of Pride Month in Junea picture started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed the rainbow-colored Pride flag hanging from the U.S.

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