On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons
The document On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons , also known by its opening words "Homosexualitatis problema" , was a pastoral letter authored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( CDF ) of the Roman Catholic Church addressed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church that was delivered in Rome on 1 October 1986 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( later Pope Benedict XVI ) and Archbishop Alberto Bovone . 
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