PUBLIC OFFICIALS who openly support same-sex marriage cannot consider themselves to be Catholic, an Italian cardinal has said.
“It’s impossible to consider oneself a Catholic if that person in one way or another recognises samesex marriage as a right,” said Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna in a doctrinal note concerning “marriage and homosexual unions”. The note on the archdiocese’s website was aimed at advising Catholic politicians so that “they would not make choices that would publicly contradict their affiliation with the Church”.
The cardinal said politicians “have a serious duty to make sure their beliefs, thoughts and proposals concerning the common good are consistent”.