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Cardinal Parolin on the Zan Ddl: “We do not ask that the law be blocked”

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“No way has he been asked to block the law. We are against any attitude or gesture of intolerance or hatred towards people because of their sexual orientation, as well as their ethnicity or their beliefs ». Thus the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to Vatican News, speaking of the Zan bill. «Our concern», continued the cardinal, «concerns the problems of interpretation that could arise if a text with vague and uncertain contents were adopted. In the absence of an adequate specification, there is the risk of putting together the most diverse behaviors and therefore making any possible distinction between man and woman punishable, with consequences that can prove to be paradoxical and which in our opinion should be avoided, as long as there is time ” .

Even the CEI, the cardinal maintains, with which “there is full continuity of views and action: it has not asked for the law to be blocked, but has suggested changes. Thus also the Note Verbale concludes with the request for a different ‘modulation’ of the text. Arguing is always lawful ».

“I fully agree with President Draghi on the secular nature of the state and the sovereignty of the Italian Parliament,” concluded the Secretary of State. “For this reason, the instrument of the Note Verbale was chosen, which is the proper means of dialogue in international relations”

The Pope was informed of the verbal note. “The principle is that the superiors are always informed about everything that is done,” Parolin observed.
Parolin then said that the intervention of the Secretariat of State aimed at signaling that the Zan bill would conflict with the Concordat represents a ‘unicum’: “There have been no other interventions in this sense but it seems important to me because it is a Pact in which the two parties undertake to implement what has been made as a common commitment. So it also seemed quite normal to be able to say that there is an agreement on this issue, so we can also express our concern ».

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