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VATICAN CITY – “The Pope loves his children as they are because they are children of God.” Francis’s words to parents with LGBT children from the “Tenda di Gionata” association, which the pontiff addressed in a brief greeting after the general audience on Wednesday, reflect that change in attitude that has been around the world since the beginning of pontificate, the answer to the journalists who in 2013 asked him, returning from Rio de Janeiro, If there was a gay lobby in the Vatican: «You have to distinguish the fact that a person is gay from the fact that they are lobbying. If it’s lobby, not all of them are good. If a person is homosexual and seeks the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge him? ”. The “revolution of tenderness”, the “outgoing Church” that draws closer to every creature.
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Pope Francis with a mask in the general audience
Francesco talked about it several times. Upon his return from Ireland in August 2018, he was asked what he would say to the parents of a homosexual son who wants to live together, and the Pope replied to the journalists who followed him on the flight: “First, pray. Don’t condemn, dialogue. Understand, make room for the son or daughter. Make room for it to express itself … I will never say that silence is a remedy. Ignoring the son or daughter with homosexual tendencies would be a lack of motherhood and fatherhood. You are my son or my daughter as you are ».
Shortly before, Juan Carlos Cruz, victim of the pedophile priest Fernando Karadima, had spoken of his private audience Francesco, duringyou who had told him about his homosexuality: «He told me: Juan Carlos, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay. God made you like that and loves you like that and I don’t care. The Pope loves you like that. You must be happy with what you are.
Francis has always used severe tones regarding what he defines as “the indoctrination of gender theory”, but people are something else, as he explained again in 2016: “In my life as a priest, as a bishop and also as Pope I have accompanied people with homosexual tendencies and even practices, I brought them closer to the Lord and I never abandoned them. People must accompany themselves as Jesus does, when a person who has this condition presents himself to Jesus, surely he will not say: go because you are homosexual . No”.
September 17, 2020 | 11:15
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