comments supporting civil unions appear to have been taken from a 2019 interview in which he reiterated the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to sexual relationships between people of the same gender.The opposition should surprise no one, as that is official church doctrine, but it provides context for Francis’s remarks.The clip of his civil unions statement, which is in the new documentary Francesco, is apparently from an interview the pope did with Mexican TV network Televisa, according to an analysis by the National Catholic Reporter, an independent publication covering the church.
The interview aired in May 2019.“Although Francis did say in that television interview, as shown in the documentary, that gay people are ‘children of God’.