Yes, I have. I'm a Peruvian Catholic. Latin America is where Catholicism remains the most fervent. The Brazilian clergy isn't going to be making heretical statements on homosexuality. It's not true.
I'm afraid most people either aren't Catholic or don't live the faith. Also, third world countries often are all too eager to adopt whatever is fashionable in the northern hemisphere. So the cancer gets here too.
Being gay itself isn't a sin. Fornication (with the same sex or otherwise) is a sin. Cultivating lustful thoughts is also a sin. The sin of scandal may also be relevant.
2357 - 2359 of the Catholic Catechism:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,141 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
Catholic clergy in favor of homophobia laws? You're talking nonsense.
Clearly you have not been paying attention to the Catholic Church for the past... 20 years, at least.
Yes, I have. I'm a Peruvian Catholic. Latin America is where Catholicism remains the most fervent. The Brazilian clergy isn't going to be making heretical statements on homosexuality. It's not true.
Brazil isn't Germany.
Eastern Europe and Africa.
Brazil was lost a long time ago because of Liberation theology. Most Catholics in Brazil do not go to mass regularly nor follow the moral authority of the church. Brazil has the second worst mass frequency in the world.
Isn't the current Pope sympathetic to homos and trannies in the political sense?
That’s why I was surprised because I thought Latin American Catholics still haven’t bent the knee to lgbt stuff like some in other places.
I'm afraid most people either aren't Catholic or don't live the faith. Also, third world countries often are all too eager to adopt whatever is fashionable in the northern hemisphere. So the cancer gets here too.
One of the most influential priests in Brazil, Fr. Julio Lancelotti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ifQdaIjVE
And be sure that many bishops are also supporting this, even if they are not so outspoken.
The situation of the catholic church in Brazil is terrible.
All he's saying is that discrimination against them is wrong, which is in the catechism. That's not the same as approving the homosexual agenda.
he literally said it is a crime. there are videos of him refusing to say that homossexuality i alsos a sin
Being gay itself isn't a sin. Fornication (with the same sex or otherwise) is a sin. Cultivating lustful thoughts is also a sin. The sin of scandal may also be relevant.
2357 - 2359 of the Catholic Catechism:
Well Catholics are fucktards.