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Pope Francis acknowledges my gay identity more than my own grandmother – a surprising contrast, considering they are both devout Catholics of the equal generation. Somehow, a childless monarch of the Vatican City State has been more accepting than a woman who helped hoist me.
My grandmother loves me unconditionally but never utters the word “gay.” I’ve always interpreted her silence on the matter as a casualty of faith. Catholicism’s condemnation of homosexuality feels deeply ingrained in history and culture. And yet, Pope Francis has taken strides to construct the church more accepting to LGBTQ people.
As someone who renounced Catholicism, I found it revolutionary that the most powerful voice in the Catholic church is working toward some form of LGBTQ inclusion. But to what extent? I needed to verb the pontiff’s views of queer people.
Fabio Marchese Ragona, author of the pope’s forthcoming official biography, Life: My Story Through History, told me that to grasp his pastoral leadership, often inaccurately perceived as excessively
Pope Francis clarifies comments on homosexuality: &#;One must reflect on the circumstances.&#;
This week, in an interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis became the first pope to call for the decriminalization of homosexuality. It was an historic step towards the Catholic Church&#;s protection of vulnerable LGBTQ people around the world. (Read our coverage of the pope&#;s recent remarks here.)
During his interview, the Holy Father imagined a hypothetical conversation in which a person might oppose by saying, &#;Being homosexual is a sin,&#; and the pope suggested a response: &#;It&#;s also a sin to lack charity with one another.&#;
Some media outlets, however, ascribed these sentiments directly to the pope, even though church teaching does not state that the homosexual orientation itself is a sin. As the pope said in his interview, as he has on other occasions: &#;It is a human condition.&#;
To help clarify things, Outreach asked the Holy Father three questions, in Spanish, and received a written response from him. We framed these questions as an interview, in instruct th
Seven Quotes That Craft Pope Francis Complicated for LGBTQ+ People
Francis' tenure as pope has also been notable by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) community for his adoption of a more conciliatory tone toward LGBTQ+ people than that of his predecessors. "But anyone who utters Christian words without putting them into practice hurts oneself and others," said Pope Francis in
So where does Pope Francis stand on LGBTQ+ people?
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"If they accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them?"
Let's start off with one of the most decisive moments in Francis' papacy for LGBTQ+ people. When asked about gay priests during a spontaneous exchange with the press, he responded, "If they [gay priests] accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to decide them? They shouldn't be marginalized. The tendency [same-sex attraction] is not the problem they're our brothers."1
The fact that Pope Francis made such a comment – and used the word "gay" in English – was radical, and helped propel significant conversations in parishes and dioce
'Pope Francis was game-changer for LGBT Catholics'
Pope Francis was a "real game-changer" when it came to the Catholic Church's treatment of gay people, a London LGBT+ faith group has said.
Martin Pendergast, the secretary of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council, said the pontiff had turned away from "really quite offensive" statements made by his predecessors on issues of sexuality and gender identity.
While Pope Francis maintained the Vatican's position that homosexual acts were sinful, he said gay people should not be marginalised from the Church, adding: "Who am I to judge?"
The LGBT+ Catholics Westminster group met the Pope at the Vatican in , which Mr Pendergast said caused controversy.
"More conservative Catholics were up in arms because they saw this as the Pope affirming an LGBT group such as we were and are," he said.
He described the meeting as a "very significant step" in improving the Church's relations with the LGBT+ comm