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Pope Francis has expressed empathy for LGBT people in the past, which has drawn criticism from the Catholic community.
Pope Francis first expressed his support for the legalization of civil unions for same-sex couples through an interview for a documentary that premiered this Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.
“The homosexual people you have the right to be in a family. They are children of God and have the right to a family. No one should be expelled or feel miserable about it, “says the leader of the Catholic Church in the film titled” Francesco. “
“What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I defended that, “he added, apparently referring to when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Additionally, the film also shows the pope encouraging a gay couple to raise their children by taking them to a local parish.
Unlike his predecessors, Francisco has chosen to show empathy for the LGBT community since he took the reins of Catholicism in 2013, something that has earned him criticism from conservative hierarchs of the church. And also remarks of “hypocrisy.”
“If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” He said at his first press conference after being elected.
But in 2013, in the book “On Heaven and Earth,” the pope said that legally equating same-sex relationships with heterosexual marriages would be “an anthropological regression.”
Until now has not opened any possibility of Catholic unions of same-sex couples.
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Francis’ predecessors openly opposed accepting the LGBT community into the Catholic Church.
And critical voices have also emerged within the Catholic Church about alleged “hypocrisy” around the issue.
Krysztof Charamsa, who was removed from the curia after expressing his homosexual orientation, he criticized the Church in 2015 for “persecuting” and causing “immeasurable suffering” to gay Catholics and their families.
A few years later, in 2018, Francisco said he was “concerned” about homosexuality in the clergy, which he called “a serious matter.”
A film by a “Jew born an atheist”
“Francesco”, directed by Oscar nominee Evgeny Afineevsky, portrays the personality and actions that the Argentine pontiff has had since he assumed the leadership of Catholicism in 2013.
“I do not see it as a documentary about the Pope, it is a documentary about all of us, all of humanity that creates disasters, attacks the environment, mounts all these wars that make migrants flee, creates sexual abuse, which not only there are in the Church, also in Hollywood, “Afineevsky told the EFE agency.
“I have met with him about five times, always depending on his schedule, we have also had two interviews on camera,” says the director, who recorded over three years, until June, already in the middle of the pandemic.
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Evgeny Afineevsky, made the filming of “Francesco” over three years.
In the documentary, the 48-year-old director born in Kazan (the former Soviet Union) who grew up in Israel and later emigrated to the United States, does not address religious questions, but rather the pope’s ideas about the great challenges of the world.
“For me, who am not a Catholic, who am Jewish and born an atheist in Russia, it was important to show the world that I, with my non-religious perspective, can see what this man does and how he inspires us,” he told EFE.
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