Activists and human rights groups have lashed out at the Catholic Church's failure to open its doors to gay people, but praised Pope Francis for getting bishops to confront "taboos."
The spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics had called for the Church to take a more accepting approach to gays, unmarried mothers and remarried divorcees, but on Saturday, bishops failed to approve the section on ministering to gay people, originally titled "welcoming homosexuals".
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