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Article: Cardinal Cottier on instruction: document shows homosexuals much sensitivity.(Interview)
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- Catholic Insight
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- January 1, 2006
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The new Vatican document on homosexuality and admission to seminaries and holy orders is not an "attack on homosexuals," says Cardinal Georges Cottier. Rather, the document is an effort "to understand their situation" and sufferings, explained Cardinal Cottier, who until today was the theologian of the Pontifical Household.
Cardinal Cottier, 83, whose successor as Pontifical Household theologian was named today, December 1, shared his views of the new Instruction with Zenit.
THE INTERVIEW
Question: What is new in this document?
Cardinal Cottier: The novelty above all lies in the fact that it offers a synthesis of what had already been ...