Senior Vatican official calls Ireland's gay marriage vote a 'defeat for humanity'

The Vatican's top diplomat said on Tuesday that the legalization of gay marriage in Ireland is a "defeat for humanity." At a news conference in Rome, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state and second to the pope in the church's hierarchy, said he was "deeply saddened by the result" of the vote. "The church must take account of this reality, but in the sense that it must strengthen its commitment to evangelization," he added. After Ireland became the first country to legalize g...