ROME — Pope Francis on Tuesday issued a unprecedented apology then he used to be accused of the usage of a extremely pejorative slur to the following homosexual males in a closed-door consultation with bishops latter date.
The pope’s number of phrases, reported by means of main Italian information shops and showed to The Washington Submit by means of a senior Vatican legit, gave the impression to run counter to his efforts to thaw the connection between the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ+ public. Since he first declared “Who am I to judge?” in a while then turning into pope in 2013, Francis has long gone additional than any pontiff in development bridges to homosexual Catholics.