Pope Francis Homosexuality

Pope Francis said on Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including homosexuals, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality but within the framework of its rules.

People who criminalise homosexuality are "wrong", Pope Francis said in a letter published on Saturday, seeking to clarify earlier comments about homosexual acts being a "sin".

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that parents of gay children should not condemn them but offer them support.

Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler.

Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.

A Chilean man who suffered clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him in a private conversation that God had made him gay and loved him that way, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that teaching children gender theory in schools was an "insidious indoctrination", even as he insisted he had always treated homosexuals and transsexuals with respect.

Pope Francis today opted for no change in the Catholic approach to homosexuality but signalled a more open stance on cohabiting and divorced believers under new Church guidelines on family life.

Pope Francis has opted to maintain the status quo on the Church's approach to homosexuality in a blow to liberals hoping for an opening to gay couples in new guidelines on the family.

Pope Francis' comments that human activity is mostly to blame for global warming top a list of the most notable quotes of 2015, as compiled by a Yale Law School librarian who also included several sound bites from the US presidential campaign.

Roman Catholic bishops agreed on Saturday to a qualified opening toward divorcees who have remarried outside the Church but rejected calls for more welcoming language towards homosexuals.

Pope Francis told a key Roman Catholic meeting on family issues today that the Church should not be a hidebound "museum of memories" but have the courage to change if that is what God wanted.

Pope Francis's mass in Philadelphia for the Catholic Church's World Meeting of Families in September is expected to draw up to two million faithful, organisers said today.

Pope Francis on Sunday closed an assembly of Catholic bishops that revealed deep divisions on how to reach out to homosexuals and divorced people, saying the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges.

Pope Francis, already Time Magazine's "person of the year", has been given the same honor by another publication - this one dedicated to the gay and lesbian community.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including homosexuals, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality but within the framework of its rules.

People who criminalise homosexuality are "wrong", Pope Francis said in a letter published on Saturday, seeking to clarify earlier comments about homosexual acts being a "sin".

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that parents of gay children should not condemn them but offer them support.

Pope Francis said on Friday politicians who rage against homosexuals, gypsies and Jews remind him of Hitler.

Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.

A Chilean man who suffered clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him in a private conversation that God had made him gay and loved him that way, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that teaching children gender theory in schools was an "insidious indoctrination", even as he insisted he had always treated homosexuals and transsexuals with respect.

Pope Francis today opted for no change in the Catholic approach to homosexuality but signalled a more open stance on cohabiting and divorced believers under new Church guidelines on family life.

Pope Francis has opted to maintain the status quo on the Church's approach to homosexuality in a blow to liberals hoping for an opening to gay couples in new guidelines on the family.

Pope Francis' comments that human activity is mostly to blame for global warming top a list of the most notable quotes of 2015, as compiled by a Yale Law School librarian who also included several sound bites from the US presidential campaign.

Roman Catholic bishops agreed on Saturday to a qualified opening toward divorcees who have remarried outside the Church but rejected calls for more welcoming language towards homosexuals.

Pope Francis told a key Roman Catholic meeting on family issues today that the Church should not be a hidebound "museum of memories" but have the courage to change if that is what God wanted.

Pope Francis's mass in Philadelphia for the Catholic Church's World Meeting of Families in September is expected to draw up to two million faithful, organisers said today.

Pope Francis on Sunday closed an assembly of Catholic bishops that revealed deep divisions on how to reach out to homosexuals and divorced people, saying the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges.

Pope Francis, already Time Magazine's "person of the year", has been given the same honor by another publication - this one dedicated to the gay and lesbian community.