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Subject How Catholics around the world see same-sex marriage, homosexuality
Date November 4, 2020 8:03 PM
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November 4, 2020


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** How Catholics around the world see same-sex marriage, homosexuality ([link removed])
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Pope Francis made news recently by voicing his support for same-sex civil unions – legal arrangements that give gay and lesbian couples many of the same rights as married opposite-sex couples. The statement struck many observers as a shift for the Vatican – which in 2003 came out against any “legal recognition of homosexual unions” – even as Francis did not change his long-standing opposition to gay marriage.

Around the world, Catholics vary in their support for same-sex marriage and their acceptance of homosexuality in general, according to Pew Research Center surveys ([link removed]) conducted in recent years. (The Center does not have recent survey data on views about civil unions.)

For example, 76% of U.S. Catholics say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared with 45% of Catholics in Poland and just 6% of Nigerian Catholics.



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