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The Church practice of celibacy is based on Jesus' example and his teaching as given in Matthew 19:11–12, as well as the writings of St. Paul who spoke of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord. [96] Celibacy was "held in high esteem" from the Church's beginnings.
in 2021, the Catholic church was an opponent of the Zan bill. [48] The bill would have banned discrimination and incitement to violence against LGBTQ people. The church argued that the bill contradicted the Lateran treaty. [49] [50] [51] The bill passed the lower house of the Italian parliament but it failed in the senate. [52]
Discrimination based on gender and religion is frequently the result of laws and practices that are justified by religious beliefs. [63] Certain religions, for example, forbid women from acting as clergy. The priesthood is reserved for men in the Catholic Church2.
The Catholic Church has been described as sending "mixed signals" regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation: [101] a 1992 teaching said that because sexuality "evokes moral concern," sexual orientation is different from qualities such as race, ethnicity, sex, or age, which do not.
References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...
Gender-affirming surgery, it adds, is to be avoided because “the body serves as the living context in which the interiority of the soul unfolds and manifests itself” but the document says ...
Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit Allen Vigneron released a letter Feb. 26, 2024, criticizing transgender identity. In the photo, he speaks during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St ...
Since 1890, the territory of what is now Vatican City has had no criminal laws against non-commercial, private, adult and consensual same-sex sexual activity. [3] The age of consent is currently set at 18 years for all persons, regardless of gender; in the case of sexual relations within marriage – only in the cases of marriages recognized as valid by the Catholic Church and by the laws of ...