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Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: July 11th, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/europe/pope-francis-...
Pope Francis said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gays for the way they had treated them. Francis was asked by a reporter if he agreed with recent comments by a Roman Catholic cardinal from Germany that the church should apologize to gays and if an apology was made more urgent by the killing of 49 people at a gay club in Florida this month. Francis, looking sad, recalled church teachings that homosexuals should not be discriminated against. They should be respected, accompanied pastorally, he said. Then he added that he thought the church should apologize not only to gay people it had offended, but also to the poor, to women who have been exploited, and to children who have been exploited by being forced to work. It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons, Francis added. The pope repeated a slightly modified version of the now-famous Who am I to judge? comment he made about gays on the first foreign trip after his election in 2013. The questions is: If a person who has that condition, who has good will, and who looks for God, who are we to judge? he said.
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