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Sudan documentary implores world to remember how a hopeful revolution became a forgotten war
Read full article: Sudan documentary implores world to remember how a hopeful revolution became a forgotten warA new documentary chronicles Sudan's 2019 revolution and the period of time immediately after the ouster of military dictator Omar Al-Bashir.
Vatican breaks silence, explains pope's civil union comments
Read full article: Vatican breaks silence, explains pope's civil union commentsInstead, he favored extending legal protections to gay couples under what is understood in Argentina as a civil union law. It turned out, Francis’ comments were apparently taken from a May 2019 interview with Mexican broadcaster Televisa that were never broadcast. The guidance issued by the secretariat of state doesn’t address the issue of the cut quote or that it came from the Televisa interview. After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis’ comments from the Televisa interview. The pope's comments about gay civil unions came from a different part of the Televisa interview and included several caveats that were not included in the film.
Fiasco over pope's cut civil union quote intensifies impact
Read full article: Fiasco over pope's cut civil union quote intensifies impactPope Francis, right, greets bishops at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary Francesco, which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival. A source in Mexico said the Vatican, which used its own cameras to shoot the interview and provided raw footage to Televisa afterward, had deleted the civil union quote in question. After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis’ civil union comments in the Televisa interview. As pope, Francis had never come out publicly in favor of legal protections for civil unions, and no pontiff before him had, either.
Mexico broadcaster: Pope's civil union quote not broadcast
Read full article: Mexico broadcaster: Pope's civil union quote not broadcastPope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary Francesco, which premiered Wednesday, Oct. 21 2020 at the Rome Film Festival. “What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered,” Francis said. But a source in Mexico familiar with the interview said the original raw footage the Vatican provided to Televisa from the interview did not include the quote on civil unions. The civil union comments caused a firestorm, thrilling progressives and alarming conservatives, given that official Vatican teaching prohibits any such endorsement of homosexual unions. However, he had never come out publicly in favor of legal protections for civil unions as pope, and no pontiff before him had, either.
Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unions
Read full article: Francis becomes 1st pope to endorse same-sex civil unionsPope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary Francesco, which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival. However, he had never come out publicly in favor of civil unions as pope, and no pontiff before him had, either. “The pope’s statement clearly contradicts what has been the long-standing teaching of the church about same-sex unions," he said in a statement. Wim Wenders did that in the 2018 film “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.”“Francesco,” is more a visual survey of the world’s crises and tragedies, with audio from the pope providing possible solutions. Instead, Rubin said, Bergoglio urged his fellow bishops to lobby for gay civil unions.