{"id":126,"date":"2010-05-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/popewatch-benedict-portugal-gay-marriage.html"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:00:00","slug":"popewatch-benedict-portugal-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/popewatch-benedict-portugal-gay-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"PopeWatch: Benedict Cheered By Fans, But Loses Same-Sex Marriage Battle After Portugal Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon returning from his visit to Portugal, Pope Benedict was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-05-16-pope-supporters-vatican_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"> greeted by an estimated 150,000-plus supporters <\/a>at St. Peter&#8217;s Square on Sunday. The gathering,<a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/popes-defenders-push-back\"> which the Vatican&#8217;s defenders&nbsp;intended as a&nbsp;show of&nbsp;solidarity with the pontiff <\/a>during his efforts to address the clergy sex abuse scandal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/holy-father-content-as-200000-pack-st.-peters-square\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">seemed to&nbsp;boost his spirits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But then yesterday, Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva announced he will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8688503.stm\">sign a law legalizing&nbsp;gay marriage,<\/a> which Benedict had just&nbsp;preached against during his visit. (On a related&nbsp;subject,&nbsp;there&#8217;s still plenty of confusion in America over whether children of same-sex couples should be allowed to attend Catholic schools, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-05-13-catholic-school-gay_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">the latest story coming out of Boston.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You win some, you lose some, right?<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon returning from his visit to Portugal, Pope Benedict was greeted by an estimated 150,000-plus supporters at St. Peter&#8217;s Square on Sunday. The gathering, which the Vatican&#8217;s defenders&nbsp;intended as a&nbsp;show of&nbsp;solidarity with the pontiff during his efforts to address the clergy sex abuse scandal, seemed to&nbsp;boost his spirits. But then yesterday, Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PopeWatch: Benedict Cheered By Fans, But Loses Same-Sex Marriage Battle After Portugal Visit - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/popewatch-benedict-portugal-gay-marriage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PopeWatch: Benedict Cheered By Fans, But Loses Same-Sex Marriage Battle After Portugal Visit - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Upon returning from his visit to Portugal, Pope Benedict was greeted by an estimated 150,000-plus supporters at St. Peter&#8217;s Square on Sunday. 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