Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the
head of Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), on Monday slammed a
bill on civil unions as raising them close to the same footing
as traditional marriage in an "unfounded" way. The family is
"truly the greatest capital of work and solidarity, a treasure
not to be weakened or dispersed with unfounded equivalence,
treating different realities in the same way," he said in the
introduction to a meeting of the CEI's permanent council.
Bagnasco also criticised the planned introduction of a bill on
stepchild adoption, including by same-sex couples, saying "all
children are entitled to a father and a mother". The CEI chief
also chided the Italian political world for being too
"quarrelsome".
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