VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis used a extremely derogatory time period in the direction of the LGBT neighborhood as he reiterated in a closed-door assembly with Italian bishops that homosexual folks shouldn’t be allowed to turn into monks, Italian media reported on Monday.
La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, Italy’s largest circulation dailies, each quoted the pope as saying seminaries, or priesthood faculties, are already too stuffed with “frociaggine,” a vulgar Italian time period roughly translating as “faggotness.”
The Vatican didn’t reply to a request for remark.
La Repubblica attributed its story to a number of unspecified sources, whereas Corriere stated it was backed up by a number of, unnamed bishops, who prompt the pope, as an Argentine, might need not realized that the Italian time period he used was offensive.
Political gossip web site Dagospia was the primary to report on the alleged incident, stated to have occurred on May 20, when the Italian Bishops Conference opened a four-day meeting with a personal assembly with the pontiff.
Francis, who’s 87, has thus far been credited with main the Roman Catholic Church into taking a extra welcoming strategy in the direction of the LGBT neighborhood.
In 2013, at the beginning of his papacy, he famously stated, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?,” whereas final 12 months he allowed monks to bless members of same-sex {couples}, triggering substantial conservative backlash.
Nevertheless, he delivered an analogous message on homosexual seminarians – minus the reported swear phrase – when he met Italian bishops in 2018, telling them to fastidiously vet priesthood candidates and reject any suspected homosexuals.
In a 2005 doc, launched underneath Francis’s late predecessor Benedict XVI, the Vatican stated the Church might admit into the priesthood those that had clearly overcome gay tendencies for at the very least three years.
The doc stated working towards homosexuals and people with “deep-seated” homosexual tendencies and those that “support the so-called gay culture” needs to be barred. — Reuters
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