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Pope Francis: Who Am I To Judge Gay People? Stop Marginalising Them
Pope Francis has said gay people should not be marginalised but integrated into society.
Speaking to reporters on a flight back from Brazil, he reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s position that homosexual acts were sinful, but homosexual orientation was not.
He was responding to questions about whether there was a “gay lobby” in the Vatican.
“If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge them?”
He also said he wanted a greater role for women in the Church, but insisted they could not be priests.
The Pope arrived back in Rome on Monday after a week-long tour of Brazil – his first trip abroad as pontiff – which climaxed with a huge gathering on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach for a world Catholic youth festival.
Festival organisers estimated it attracted more than three million people.
BBC
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Higher Taller
July 30, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Please enlighten me “homosexual acts are sinful, but homosexual orientation is not.”
Kumwao
July 30, 2013 at 10:25 pm
The pop has popped! He now puts celibacy in question! All this about boys and men being abused by priests in the catholic church were not without basis. That is why the catholic church has never defrocked any priest founding wanting because of abusing boys! It should not be confusing but confirming!
bigbuttman
July 30, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Christabel you are a total fúcking *****. God loves everyone including gays.
gaius
July 30, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Kuti waluka some news
uptons
July 30, 2013 at 9:38 pm
pope satanist
Embalmed meat eater
July 30, 2013 at 10:12 pm
watch and pray….all these things are but sign of the end times….otherwise, these signs are to remind us that Jesus Christ is coming soon….let us fix our eyes on Jesus Christ to overcome so that we are not found wanting…..the bible does not say let man have his own man or woman have her own woman in order to flee from fornication (1 Corinthians 7:2) and Jude 1:7…end times…end times my brothers…
Nazrael the Jezebel
July 31, 2013 at 8:22 am
There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your atheism toward the Roman gods are likely the same reasons I would give for not believing in Jesus. — Dan Barker
Embalmed meat eater
July 30, 2013 at 10:22 pm
otherwise the bible continues giving us light (the truth) Isaiah 8:20 (To the law and the testimony….)
Higher Taller
July 31, 2013 at 12:32 am
The beginning of a u turning of the scriptures? Yes the catholics are succumbing to world pressure
Mashilaland
July 31, 2013 at 6:56 am
Many in the Catholic Church know that this Pope could be one of the false prophets. We Re in the last days. Home sexuality is abomination. Period.
Coco-Rico
July 31, 2013 at 8:42 am
When Obama need a re-election he turned to them gays and he got it, the Catholic Church has lost a lot of people in South America to the Pentecostals who could they have turned to than them Shit eaters.
pumric
July 31, 2013 at 8:46 am
ThE POPE is on DOPE
FYI
July 31, 2013 at 1:04 pm
true that!
Nabwinga 2013
July 31, 2013 at 9:06 am
This makes sad reading for me not only because I am a Catholic but because I have a need in my church for deliverance which my church has not yet fully come to embrace.My appeal to all Christians that mean well,is that please pray for our Leader and pray for our Catholic church, that God pours his Holy Spirit of Power in the church and sets free all people who are in gay activities by delivering them from the spirit of Homosexuality in the name of Jesus Christ. AMEN
zamo
July 31, 2013 at 9:37 am
Is pope a christian? There cannot be a christian who can encourage homosexual when the bible states clear. We need to know why God put a seed in us for the purpose of continuation as as the earth remains.
Genesis 1 v 11-12, 8v21-23.
Ndaje Kahks
July 31, 2013 at 10:24 am
He is not encouraging gaysim. He is only saying he cannot judge a fellow human being. Read your Bible and you will see that Jesus has told us not to judge others.
Umupondo!!
July 31, 2013 at 11:25 am
Why are u defending the lost pope? are you a catholic member?only fools!!like you! would do such a thing!!I.D.I.O.T!!!!!
sam
July 31, 2013 at 9:39 am
gays need to be shown love and we the so called true christian must help them to turn to Christ. who are we to judge i think is the lesson we all should learn from this
mike
July 31, 2013 at 11:48 am
Homosexuality is SIN just as murder, fornication,adultery,lies,false witness, not honoring parents,etc. It is right for leaders to speak and condemn these sins. It is right for leaders to call sinners to repentance. Jesus castigated sinners and called them to repentance – not to sin again.
The Pope here was saying ‘Zoipa Chitani Mulungu azaweluza’. That was wrong!!
mwewa
July 31, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Wrong chaps in catholic,
ukusebanya church sure,father Bwalya bonse nimu katolika,pope supporting homsexuality,do you think God was wrong to create man and woman? if he wanted he would have created man and man or woman and woman
“homosexuality is a sin,repent and turn to God those practising it.
Bufi
July 31, 2013 at 12:18 pm
Why pray for the catholic church when the holy bible in matthew 6:9-10 tells me to pray for God’s Kingdom to come?Kuti mwasala umuntu ne chushi and expect ifintu ukuba bwino.Bali kolwa balya
She - Knows
July 31, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Ati Pope on dope! I like that one. What is the pope up to. Which bible does he read for him to say these people need to embraced. A church leader embracing sin. SHAME! God help us all.
Ester mwewa
July 31, 2013 at 4:45 pm
I wonder wat kind of christian the pop is.He should read his Bible propely.God wasnt ****** to create Adam &Eve.
bkk
July 31, 2013 at 5:13 pm
ine napapafye, if God condemns it, who is the Pope not to?