Pope francis about gay people
Pope Francis repeats calls for LGBTQ inclusion in new book
“Everyone in the Church is invited, including people who are divorced, including people who are gay, including people who are transgender,” Pope Francis writes in his new publication, Hope: The Autobiography. The roughly page book, written with Italian book publisher Carlo Musso, was published in English on Tuesday.
The undertaking began in and was not slated to be published until after the pope’s death, but its publication dine was moved up to coincide with the Jubilee year. While the publication contains many anecdotes from the pope’s personal life, some reviewers have said it offers brief insight into the decisions he has made later, as pope.
Comments explicitly addressing the role of LGBTQ people in the church are confined to a few pages, and much of this material seems to be drawn from previous statements or comments from the pope. But taken together, they are a reaffirmation of the pope’s tries for making the church more welcoming to LGBTQ people, even within the confines of church teaching on gender and sex
Today, April 21, , Pope Francis passed away. Pope Francis has repeatedly urged acceptance of LGBTQ people and considered how top the Roman Catholic Church can support and minister to them.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said: “Pope Francis was a transformational leader who included LGBTQ people in historic ways. Having had the honor of rendezvous with Pope Francis twice, I witnessed first-hand his dedication to make a Church for all, not just some. His principles of empathetic listening, inclusion, and compassion are exactly what this divided nature needs right now. When Pope Francis spoke out against the act of criminalizing LGBTQ people and when he famously spoke ‘who am I to judge,’ he created an example of unity that faith and civil leaders should follow.”
In , and , Pope Francis met with GLAAD staff, LGBTQ advocates from Uganda and Ghana-where the LGBTQ group is being targeted by anti-LGBTQ legislation, and transsexual people, including transgender actress Nava Mau. Mau spoke about the meeting at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards: “(Pope Francis) told us he wishes
Pope Leo XIV, solidarity and the LGBTQ community
Ever since Pope Leo XIV’s election, I’ve been reflecting on an interaction I had in with Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., a founder of liberation theology, advocate for the poor and, prefer the new pope, a Peruvian citizen. Back then, I was a PhD student at Fordham University, where the Dominican priest had just given a public lecture and met with the theology department. My friend, a fellow student, volunteered to offer Father Gutiérrez a travel to JFK Airport for the final leg of his trip. We packed the car with graduate students, excited to expend time with one of our heroes.
As my companion drove, we peppered Father Gutiérrez with questions. What was it like defending his work to the Vatican in the s? What did he believe of Pope Francis? Then one of us asked him about the future of liberation theology: “Who are the poor of the 21st century?”
I was stunned by his frank response: “The church needs to better understand the plight of LGBT people.”
At the time, Father Gutiérrez was in his mids, but he was well-attuned to society’s rapid
'Pope Francis was game-changer for LGBT Catholics'
Pope Francis was a "real game-changer" when it came to the Catholic Church's treatment of male lover people, a London LGBT+ faith group has said.
Martin Pendergast, the secretary of the LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council, said the pontiff had turned away from "really quite offensive" statements made by his predecessors on issues of sexuality and gender identity.
While Pope Francis maintained the Vatican's position that homosexual acts were sinful, he said gay people should not be marginalised from the Church, adding: "Who am I to judge?"
The LGBT+ Catholics Westminster group met the Pope at the Vatican in , which Mr Pendergast said caused controversy.
"More conservative Catholics were up in arms because they saw this as the Pope affirming an LGBT group such as we were and are," he said.
He described the meeting as a "very significant step" in improving the Church's relations with the LGBT+ comm