A Listing of Cardinals and Bishops Supportive of Same-Sex Unions
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•Archbishop Piero Marini, President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses (support for civil unions)
•April 2013, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, (support for civil unions)
•April 2013, Cardinal Rubén Salazar of Bogota, Colombia (support for civil unions)
•March 2013, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington (support for civil unions)
•Feb 2013, Archbishop Vincent Paglia, head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family (supported “legal protections” for same-sex relationships)
•Jan 2013, French Bishops’ Conference’s Family and Society Committee (support strengthened civil unions as alternative to full marriage)
•Dec 2012, Bishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, Locri-Gerace diocese in Calabria (supported “legal protections” for same-sex relationships)
•May 2012, Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Berlin (support for same-sex relationships)
•March 2012, Diocese of New Hampshire (civil unions as alternative to full marriage)
•March 2012, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson (complete reform of all sexual doctrine)
•Feb 2012, Bishop Charles Scicluna of Malta (support for same-sex relationships)
•Jan 2012, Bishop Paolo Urso of Ragusa, Italy (de facto support for civil unions)
•Nov 2011, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Westminster (sees “value” in civil unions)
•July 2010, Willie Walsh, the retiring Bishop of Killaloe (respect for same-sex relationships)
•? 2010 Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis (civil unions as alternative to full marriage).
•June 2010 Bishop Januario Torgal Ferreira, Portuguese ordinariate for armed forces (support for same-sex relationships) June 2010
•June 2010 Bishop Francis A Quinn, retired bishop of Sacramento (complete reform of all sexual doctrine)
•April 2010 Cardinal Schonborn of Vienna, (support for same-sex relationships)
•Aug 2009 Portuguese Bishops, (civil unions as alternative to full mariage)
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