Sins and sinners

You'd think that the Paper of Record, even when relying on a news service, would get it right....
In a piece about an unnamed Monsignor who went on television and said that he didn't think his having sex with other men was a sin:
"Vatican teaching holds that homosexuality is a sin."
"Vatican teaching"? CHURCH teaching, Catholic teaching, not "Vatican" teaching, as if a bunch of old guys sitting around in modern day Italy made this up on their won.
And one more time, slowly, small words:
The Church says sex outside (that words two syllables, but you understand it, right?) marriage (another double whammy,) is wrong.
The ACTIVITY is a sin, NOT the orientation.
Get it?